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.
1751
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"
3 min
1752
Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1753
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1754
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1755
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1756
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1757
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1758
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1759
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1760
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1761
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1762
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1763
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1764
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1765
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1766
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1767
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1768
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1769
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1770
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1771
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1772
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1773
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
1774
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
1775
Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min