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
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1802
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1803
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1804
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1805
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1806
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1807
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1808
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1809
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1810
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1811
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1812
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1813
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1814
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1815
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1816
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1817
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1818
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
1819
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
1820
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
1821
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min
1822
Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"
1 min
1823
Babette Deutsch: "Silence"
1 min
1824
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.: "My Song"
1 min
1825
Hala Alyan: "Object Permanence"
2 min