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
Dan Lau: "XX Judgement"
2 min
1802
Guest Editor Interview: August Guest Editor Kaz...
29 min
1803
Dan Rosenberg: "Order"
3 min
1804
Sara Teasdale: "August Moonrise"
4 min
1805
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"
3 min
1806
Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1807
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1808
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1809
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1810
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1811
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1812
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1813
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1814
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1815
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1816
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1817
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1818
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1819
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1820
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1821
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1822
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1823
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1824
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1825
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min