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
Aldo Amparán: "Aubade at the City of Change"
4 min
1827
Corrinne Clegg Hales: "1967, Girl and Snow"
6 min
1828
Hera Naguib: "Prologue to a Womanhood"
3 min
1829
Như Xuân Nguyễn: "The Moons of Neptune"
3 min
1830
Guest Editor Interview: March Guest Editor Sash...
15 min
1831
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Thought."
1 min
1832
Langston Hughes: "My Loves"
2 min
1833
Ishmael Reed: "Skin Tight"
6 min
1834
Xandria Phillips: "Black Heroism is Unskilled L...
3 min
1835
Yesenia Montilla: "Naming the Baby"
2 min
1836
Quincy Troupe: "Sonic Fireflies"
3 min
1837
Jacqueline Jones LaMon: "Six"
5 min
1838
Claude McKay: "To Winter"
2 min
1839
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Calling Dreams"
1 min
1840
Vincent Toro: "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Ma...
7 min
1841
Kwame Dawes: "How I Pray in the Plague"
8 min
1842
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Vault of Morning"
4 min
1843
Rickey Laurentiis: "Because we love each other"
3 min
1844
Dante Micheaux: "The Day Room"
2 min
1845
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "A Valentine"
2 min
1846
George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
1847
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
1848
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
1849
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1850
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min