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.
1701
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1702
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1703
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1704
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1705
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1706
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1707
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1708
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1709
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1710
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1711
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1712
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1713
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1714
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1715
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1716
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1717
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
1718
Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min
1719
Hannah Sanghee Park: "The One Mockingbird Only ...
3 min
1720
Jada Renée Allen: "Interior"
2 min
1721
Dāshaun Washington: "A Fairy Tale of Blackboyho...
4 min
1722
Rachel Moritz: "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
2 min
1723
Nick Demske: "I let the flies bite me when I me...
3 min
1724
Effie Lee Newsome: "Sunset"
1 min
1725
Tu Fu: "The River Village"
2 min