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.
1776
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1777
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1778
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1779
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1780
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1781
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1782
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1783
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1784
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1785
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1786
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1787
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1788
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1789
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1790
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1791
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1792
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1793
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1794
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1795
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1796
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1797
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1798
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1799
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1800
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min