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
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1802
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1803
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1804
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1805
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1806
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1807
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1808
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1809
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1810
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1811
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1812
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1813
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1814
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1815
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1816
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1817
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1818
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1819
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
1820
Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min
1821
Hannah Sanghee Park: "The One Mockingbird Only ...
3 min
1822
Jada Renée Allen: "Interior"
2 min
1823
Dāshaun Washington: "A Fairy Tale of Blackboyho...
4 min
1824
Rachel Moritz: "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
2 min
1825
Nick Demske: "I let the flies bite me when I me...
3 min