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.

Books
1726
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1727
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1728
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1729
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1730
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1731
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1732
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1733
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1734
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1735
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1736
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1737
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1738
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1739
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1740
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1741
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1742
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1743
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1744
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1745
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1746
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1747
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1748
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1749
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
1750
Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min