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.

Books
1801
Ruth Muskrat Bronson: "If You Knew"
2 min
1802
Linda Hogan: "Map"
4 min
1803
Deborah A. Miranda: "Torch"
4 min
1804
Aldo Amparán: "Aubade at the City of Change"
4 min
1805
Corrinne Clegg Hales: "1967, Girl and Snow"
6 min
1806
Hera Naguib: "Prologue to a Womanhood"
3 min
1807
Như Xuân Nguyễn: "The Moons of Neptune"
3 min
1808
Guest Editor Interview: March Guest Editor Sash...
15 min
1809
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Thought."
1 min
1810
Langston Hughes: "My Loves"
2 min
1811
Ishmael Reed: "Skin Tight"
6 min
1812
Xandria Phillips: "Black Heroism is Unskilled L...
3 min
1813
Yesenia Montilla: "Naming the Baby"
2 min
1814
Quincy Troupe: "Sonic Fireflies"
3 min
1815
Jacqueline Jones LaMon: "Six"
5 min
1816
Claude McKay: "To Winter"
2 min
1817
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Calling Dreams"
1 min
1818
Vincent Toro: "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Ma...
7 min
1819
Kwame Dawes: "How I Pray in the Plague"
8 min
1820
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Vault of Morning"
4 min
1821
Rickey Laurentiis: "Because we love each other"
3 min
1822
Dante Micheaux: "The Day Room"
2 min
1823
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "A Valentine"
2 min
1824
George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
1825
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min