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
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1802
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1803
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1804
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1805
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1806
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1807
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1808
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1809
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1810
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1811
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1812
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
1813
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
1814
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
1815
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min
1816
Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"
1 min
1817
Babette Deutsch: "Silence"
1 min
1818
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.: "My Song"
1 min
1819
Hala Alyan: "Object Permanence"
2 min
1820
Safia Elhillo: "Ode to Sudanese-Americans"
3 min
1821
beyza ozer: "on holding rose water"
1 min
1822
Ladan Osman: "Take Wing Tempo"
2 min
1823
Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The New Decade"
1 min
1824
George Marion McClellan: "A January Dandelion"
1 min
1825
Léonie Adams: "Never Enough of Living"
1 min