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
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1727
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1728
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1729
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1730
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1731
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1732
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1733
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1734
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1735
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1736
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1737
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1738
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1739
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1740
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1741
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1742
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1743
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1744
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1745
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
1746
Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min
1747
Hannah Sanghee Park: "The One Mockingbird Only ...
3 min
1748
Jada Renée Allen: "Interior"
2 min
1749
Dāshaun Washington: "A Fairy Tale of Blackboyho...
4 min
1750
Rachel Moritz: "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
2 min