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
Mark Wunderlich: "My Local Dead"
4 min
1652
Laura Riding Jackson: "The Spring Has Many Sile...
2 min
1653
Angelina Weld Grimké: "At the Spring Dawn"
2 min
1654
Jameson Fitzpatrick: "Divorce Song"
3 min
1655
Dana Jaye Cadman: "Ghosts"
2 min
1656
Monica Ferrell: "In Safranbolu"
4 min
1657
Rio Cortez: "Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film"
3 min
1658
Victoria Redel: "The Pact"
3 min
1659
Djuna Barnes: "Pastoral"
3 min
1660
Gertrude Stein: "Much Later"
1 min
1661
Evan Gill Smith: "The Cow Speaks to the Child"
2 min
1662
Eugenia Leigh: "Glossolalia"
3 min
1663
Tarfia Faizullah: "Red-Lipped Poem"
2 min
1664
Maya C. Popa: "One Way or Another"
3 min
1665
Emily Pittinos: "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
4 min
1666
Katherine Mansfield: "Voices of the Air"
2 min
1667
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: "Femme Futures"
9 min
1668
Noʻu Revilla: "Welcome to the Gut House"
5 min
1669
Stefania Gomez: "At the New York City AIDS Memo...
3 min
1670
Youmna Chlala: "Night Needs No Stars"
2 min
1671
Tracy Fuad: "Eclipse Season"
5 min
1672
Willa Carroll: "Cloud Demolition"
3 min
1673
Marianne Moore: "Reinforcements"
1 min
1674
Willa Cather: "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
3 min
1675
Meghann Plunkett: "Climate"
2 min