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.
1801
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1802
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1803
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1804
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1805
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1806
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1807
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1808
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1809
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1810
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1811
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1812
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1813
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1814
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1815
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1816
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1817
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1818
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1819
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1820
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1821
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1822
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1823
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1824
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1825
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min