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.
1651
Dan Rosenberg: "Order"
3 min
1652
Sara Teasdale: "August Moonrise"
4 min
1653
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"
3 min
1654
Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1655
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1656
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1657
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1658
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1659
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1660
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1661
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1662
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1663
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1664
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1665
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1666
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1667
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1668
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1669
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1670
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1671
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1672
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1673
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1674
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1675
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min