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
George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
1652
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
1653
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
1654
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1655
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1656
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1657
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1658
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1659
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1660
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1661
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1662
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1663
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1664
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1665
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1666
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1667
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1668
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1669
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1670
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1671
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1672
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1673
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1674
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1675
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min