Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Genevieve Shubeck. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
1651
Dan Lau: "XX Judgement"
2 min
1652
Guest Editor Interview: August Guest Editor Kaz...
29 min
1653
Dan Rosenberg: "Order"
3 min
1654
Sara Teasdale: "August Moonrise"
4 min
1655
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"
3 min
1656
Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1657
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1658
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1659
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1660
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1661
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1662
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1663
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1664
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1665
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1666
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1667
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1668
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1669
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1670
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1671
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1672
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1673
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1674
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1675
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min