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