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
1701
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1702
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1703
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1704
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1705
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
1706
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
1707
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
1708
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
1709
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
1710
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
1711
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
1712
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
1713
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
1714
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
1715
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
1716
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
1717
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
1718
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
1719
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min
1720
Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"
1 min
1721
Franny Choi: "Hangul Abecedarian"
0 min
1722
Gregory Pardlo: From "Giornata: On Faith"
0 min
1723
John Yau: "A Painter’s Thoughts"
2 min
1724
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "An Indian Love Song"
1 min
1725
Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Yesterday and To-morrow"
1 min