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