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.
1701
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1702
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1703
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1704
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1705
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1706
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1707
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1708
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1709
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1710
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1711
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1712
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1713
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1714
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1715
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1716
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1717
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1718
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1719
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1720
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1721
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1722
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1723
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1724
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1725
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min