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.
1826
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1827
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1828
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1829
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1830
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1831
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1832
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1833
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1834
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1835
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1836
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1837
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1838
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1839
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1840
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1841
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1842
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
1843
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
1844
Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min
1845
Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"
4 min
1846
Wo Chan: "the shoes"
4 min
1847
Carl Sandburg: "Good Night"
2 min
1848
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "July"
1 min
1849
Samiya Bashir: "i traveled the world. it was fi...
3 min
1850
Guest Editor Interview: July Guest Editor R. Er...
26 min