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
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1777
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1778
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1779
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1780
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1781
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1782
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1783
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1784
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1785
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1786
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1787
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1788
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1789
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1790
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1791
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1792
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1793
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
1794
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
1795
Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min
1796
Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"
4 min
1797
Wo Chan: "the shoes"
4 min
1798
Carl Sandburg: "Good Night"
2 min
1799
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "July"
1 min
1800
Samiya Bashir: "i traveled the world. it was fi...
3 min