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.
1876
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1877
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1878
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1879
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1880
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1881
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1882
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1883
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1884
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1885
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1886
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1887
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1888
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1889
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1890
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1891
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1892
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1893
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1894
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1895
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1896
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1897
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1898
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1899
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1900
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min