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
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1827
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1828
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1829
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1830
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1831
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1832
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1833
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1834
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
1835
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
1836
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
1837
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
1838
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
1839
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
1840
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
1841
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
1842
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
1843
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
1844
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
1845
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min
1846
Didi Jackson: "Bobolink"
4 min
1847
William Stanley Braithwaite: "Near the End of A...
1 min
1848
Joseph Millar: "Venetian Siesta"
3 min
1849
Dorianne Laux: "I Never Wanted to Die"
2 min
1850
David St. John: "Overlooking the Cortile"
3 min