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
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1752
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1753
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1754
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1755
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1756
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1757
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1758
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1759
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1760
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1761
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1762
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1763
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1764
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1765
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1766
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1767
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1768
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1769
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1770
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1771
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1772
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1773
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1774
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1775
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min