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.

Books
1676
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1677
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1678
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1679
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1680
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1681
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1682
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1683
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1684
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1685
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1686
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1687
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1688
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
1689
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
1690
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
1691
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min
1692
Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"
1 min
1693
Babette Deutsch: "Silence"
1 min
1694
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.: "My Song"
1 min
1695
Hala Alyan: "Object Permanence"
2 min
1696
Safia Elhillo: "Ode to Sudanese-Americans"
3 min
1697
beyza ozer: "on holding rose water"
1 min
1698
Ladan Osman: "Take Wing Tempo"
2 min
1699
Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The New Decade"
1 min
1700
George Marion McClellan: "A January Dandelion"
1 min