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
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
1827
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1828
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1829
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1830
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1831
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1832
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1833
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1834
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1835
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1836
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1837
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1838
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1839
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1840
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1841
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1842
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1843
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1844
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1845
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1846
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1847
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1848
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1849
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1850
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min