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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
1826
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1827
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1828
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1829
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1830
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1831
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1832
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1833
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1834
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
1835
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
1836
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
1837
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
1838
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
1839
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
1840
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
1841
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
1842
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
1843
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
1844
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
1845
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
1846
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
1847
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
1848
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min
1849
Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"
1 min
1850
Franny Choi: "Hangul Abecedarian"
0 min