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
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1652
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1653
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1654
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1655
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1656
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1657
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1658
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1659
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1660
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1661
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1662
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1663
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1664
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1665
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1666
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1667
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1668
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1669
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1670
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1671
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1672
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1673
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1674
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1675
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min