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.

Books
1801
Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng: "Learning Late Letters"
6 min
1802
Ashaki M. Jackson: "A Proclamation"
1 min
1803
Sharan Strange: "Slippage, a Provocation"
5 min
1804
Jasmine Reid: "Certificate of Live Birth"
2 min
1805
Rio Cortez: "Driving at Night"
0 min
1806
Bettina Judd: "on empathy"
3 min
1807
Josephine D. Heard: "Sunshine After Cloud"
1 min
1808
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Again it is September"
0 min
1809
Nandi Comer: "The Check In"
2 min
1810
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Middle of the Burning"
5 min
1811
Daria-Ann Martineau: "Carnivorous, with a varie...
2 min
1812
Charleen McClure: "Caretaker"
2 min
1813
Starr Davis: "Today, God"
2 min
1814
Olivia Ward Bush-Banks: "The Plains of Peace"
2 min
1815
Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.: "A Prayer"
0 min
1816
Joy Priest: "Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Ov...
4 min
1817
Marwa Helal: "WHO REAL؟"
14 min
1818
Jeremy Michael Clark: "One Fire, Quenched with ...
4 min
1819
Desiree C. Bailey: "Woman in Dub"
3 min
1820
francine j. Harris: "Did anyone ever ask any on...
2 min
1821
Leslie Pinckney Hill: "Vacation End"
1 min
1822
William Stanley Braithwaite: "It’s a Long Way"
0 min
1823
Nabila Lovelace: "By Inch-Meal a Disease"
1 min
1824
Natasha Oladokun: "Black Credit"
3 min
1825
makalani bandele: "sample collected from a supe...
2 min