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
Maya C. Popa: "One Way or Another"
3 min
1727
Emily Pittinos: "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
4 min
1728
Katherine Mansfield: "Voices of the Air"
2 min
1729
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: "Femme Futures"
9 min
1730
Noʻu Revilla: "Welcome to the Gut House"
5 min
1731
Stefania Gomez: "At the New York City AIDS Memo...
3 min
1732
Youmna Chlala: "Night Needs No Stars"
2 min
1733
Tracy Fuad: "Eclipse Season"
5 min
1734
Willa Carroll: "Cloud Demolition"
3 min
1735
Marianne Moore: "Reinforcements"
1 min
1736
Willa Cather: "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
3 min
1737
Meghann Plunkett: "Climate"
2 min
1738
Alicia Mountain: "Drift"
3 min
1739
Monica McClure: "The Heedless Shephard"
2 min
1740
Hannah Aizenman: "As a Father of Daughters"
3 min
1741
Guest Editor Interview: March 2022 Guest Editor...
12 min
1742
Kwame Dawes: "It Bruises, Too"
3 min
1743
Effie Lee Newsome: "Exodus"
1 min
1744
Bruce Nugent: "Shadow"
1 min
1745
Patricia Smith: "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wan...
4 min
1746
Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
3 min
1747
Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"
3 min
1748
Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min
1749
Tim Seibles: "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
4 min
1750
Elizabeth Curtis Holman: "We Pulled a Rose in S...
1 min