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
Linda Hogan: "Map"
4 min
1677
Deborah A. Miranda: "Torch"
4 min
1678
Aldo Amparán: "Aubade at the City of Change"
4 min
1679
Corrinne Clegg Hales: "1967, Girl and Snow"
6 min
1680
Hera Naguib: "Prologue to a Womanhood"
3 min
1681
Như Xuân Nguyễn: "The Moons of Neptune"
3 min
1682
Guest Editor Interview: March Guest Editor Sash...
15 min
1683
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Thought."
1 min
1684
Langston Hughes: "My Loves"
2 min
1685
Ishmael Reed: "Skin Tight"
6 min
1686
Xandria Phillips: "Black Heroism is Unskilled L...
3 min
1687
Yesenia Montilla: "Naming the Baby"
2 min
1688
Quincy Troupe: "Sonic Fireflies"
3 min
1689
Jacqueline Jones LaMon: "Six"
5 min
1690
Claude McKay: "To Winter"
2 min
1691
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Calling Dreams"
1 min
1692
Vincent Toro: "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Ma...
7 min
1693
Kwame Dawes: "How I Pray in the Plague"
8 min
1694
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Vault of Morning"
4 min
1695
Rickey Laurentiis: "Because we love each other"
3 min
1696
Dante Micheaux: "The Day Room"
2 min
1697
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "A Valentine"
2 min
1698
George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
1699
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
1700
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min