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.
1651
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
1652
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
1653
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1654
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1655
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1656
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1657
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1658
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1659
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1660
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1661
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1662
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1663
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1664
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1665
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1666
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1667
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1668
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1669
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1670
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1671
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1672
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1673
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1674
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1675
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min