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.
1851
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1852
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1853
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1854
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1855
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1856
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1857
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1858
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1859
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
1860
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
1861
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
1862
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
1863
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
1864
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
1865
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
1866
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
1867
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
1868
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
1869
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
1870
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min
1871
Didi Jackson: "Bobolink"
4 min
1872
William Stanley Braithwaite: "Near the End of A...
1 min
1873
Joseph Millar: "Venetian Siesta"
3 min
1874
Dorianne Laux: "I Never Wanted to Die"
2 min
1875
David St. John: "Overlooking the Cortile"
3 min