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