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
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1827
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1828
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1829
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1830
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1831
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1832
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1833
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1834
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1835
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1836
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1837
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1838
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1839
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1840
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1841
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1842
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1843
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1844
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1845
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1846
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1847
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
1848
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
1849
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
1850
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min