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
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1852
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1853
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1854
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1855
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1856
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1857
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1858
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1859
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1860
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1861
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1862
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1863
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1864
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1865
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1866
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1867
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1868
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1869
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1870
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1871
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1872
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1873
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1874
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1875
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min