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
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1702
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1703
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1704
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1705
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1706
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1707
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1708
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1709
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1710
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1711
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1712
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1713
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1714
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1715
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1716
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1717
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1718
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1719
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1720
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1721
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1722
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1723
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1724
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1725
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min