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