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
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1752
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1753
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1754
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1755
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1756
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1757
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1758
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1759
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1760
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1761
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1762
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1763
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1764
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1765
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1766
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1767
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1768
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
1769
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
1770
Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min
1771
Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"
4 min
1772
Wo Chan: "the shoes"
4 min
1773
Carl Sandburg: "Good Night"
2 min
1774
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "July"
1 min
1775
Samiya Bashir: "i traveled the world. it was fi...
3 min