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 Thea Matthews. 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
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1652
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1653
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1654
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1655
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1656
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1657
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1658
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1659
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1660
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1661
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1662
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1663
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
1664
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
1665
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
1666
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min
1667
Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"
1 min
1668
Babette Deutsch: "Silence"
1 min
1669
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.: "My Song"
1 min
1670
Hala Alyan: "Object Permanence"
2 min
1671
Safia Elhillo: "Ode to Sudanese-Americans"
3 min
1672
beyza ozer: "on holding rose water"
1 min
1673
Ladan Osman: "Take Wing Tempo"
2 min
1674
Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The New Decade"
1 min
1675
George Marion McClellan: "A January Dandelion"
1 min