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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
1851
Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng: "Learning Late Letters"
6 min
1852
Ashaki M. Jackson: "A Proclamation"
1 min
1853
Sharan Strange: "Slippage, a Provocation"
5 min
1854
Jasmine Reid: "Certificate of Live Birth"
2 min
1855
Rio Cortez: "Driving at Night"
0 min
1856
Bettina Judd: "on empathy"
3 min
1857
Josephine D. Heard: "Sunshine After Cloud"
1 min
1858
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Again it is September"
0 min
1859
Nandi Comer: "The Check In"
2 min
1860
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Middle of the Burning"
5 min
1861
Daria-Ann Martineau: "Carnivorous, with a varie...
2 min
1862
Charleen McClure: "Caretaker"
2 min
1863
Starr Davis: "Today, God"
2 min
1864
Olivia Ward Bush-Banks: "The Plains of Peace"
2 min
1865
Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.: "A Prayer"
0 min
1866
Joy Priest: "Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Ov...
4 min
1867
Marwa Helal: "WHO REAL؟"
14 min
1868
Jeremy Michael Clark: "One Fire, Quenched with ...
4 min
1869
Desiree C. Bailey: "Woman in Dub"
3 min
1870
francine j. Harris: "Did anyone ever ask any on...
2 min
1871
Leslie Pinckney Hill: "Vacation End"
1 min
1872
William Stanley Braithwaite: "It’s a Long Way"
0 min
1873
Nabila Lovelace: "By Inch-Meal a Disease"
1 min
1874
Natasha Oladokun: "Black Credit"
3 min
1875
makalani bandele: "sample collected from a supe...
2 min