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