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
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1877
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1878
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1879
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1880
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1881
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1882
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1883
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1884
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1885
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1886
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1887
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1888
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1889
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1890
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1891
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1892
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1893
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
1894
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
1895
Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min
1896
Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"
4 min
1897
Wo Chan: "the shoes"
4 min
1898
Carl Sandburg: "Good Night"
2 min
1899
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "July"
1 min
1900
Samiya Bashir: "i traveled the world. it was fi...
3 min