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
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1777
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1778
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1779
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1780
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1781
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1782
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1783
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1784
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1785
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1786
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1787
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
1788
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
1789
Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min
1790
Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"
4 min
1791
Wo Chan: "the shoes"
4 min
1792
Carl Sandburg: "Good Night"
2 min
1793
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "July"
1 min
1794
Samiya Bashir: "i traveled the world. it was fi...
3 min
1795
Guest Editor Interview: July Guest Editor R. Er...
26 min
1796
George Abraham: "Searching for a Palestinian Ne...
6 min
1797
dee(dee) c. ardan: "freedom terrors"
8 min
1798
Precious Okoyomon: "The animal that is most vul...
2 min
1799
Tian-Ai: "Aspiration"
3 min
1800
Paul Laurence Dunbar: "With the Lark"
2 min