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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
1776
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1777
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1778
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1779
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1780
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1781
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1782
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1783
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1784
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1785
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1786
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1787
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1788
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1789
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1790
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1791
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1792
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1793
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1794
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1795
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1796
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1797
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1798
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1799
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1800
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min