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
1676
Maya C. Popa: "One Way or Another"
3 min
1677
Emily Pittinos: "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
4 min
1678
Katherine Mansfield: "Voices of the Air"
2 min
1679
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: "Femme Futures"
9 min
1680
Noʻu Revilla: "Welcome to the Gut House"
5 min
1681
Stefania Gomez: "At the New York City AIDS Memo...
3 min
1682
Youmna Chlala: "Night Needs No Stars"
2 min
1683
Tracy Fuad: "Eclipse Season"
5 min
1684
Willa Carroll: "Cloud Demolition"
3 min
1685
Marianne Moore: "Reinforcements"
1 min
1686
Willa Cather: "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
3 min
1687
Meghann Plunkett: "Climate"
2 min
1688
Alicia Mountain: "Drift"
3 min
1689
Monica McClure: "The Heedless Shephard"
2 min
1690
Hannah Aizenman: "As a Father of Daughters"
3 min
1691
Guest Editor Interview: March 2022 Guest Editor...
12 min
1692
Kwame Dawes: "It Bruises, Too"
3 min
1693
Effie Lee Newsome: "Exodus"
1 min
1694
Bruce Nugent: "Shadow"
1 min
1695
Patricia Smith: "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wan...
4 min
1696
Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
3 min
1697
Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"
3 min
1698
Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min
1699
Tim Seibles: "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
4 min
1700
Elizabeth Curtis Holman: "We Pulled a Rose in S...
1 min