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
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
1827
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
1828
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1829
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1830
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1831
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1832
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1833
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1834
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1835
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1836
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1837
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1838
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1839
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1840
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1841
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1842
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1843
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1844
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1845
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1846
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1847
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1848
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1849
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1850
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min