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.
1901
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1902
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1903
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1904
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1905
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1906
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1907
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1908
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1909
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1910
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1911
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
1912
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
1913
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
1914
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min
1915
Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"
1 min
1916
Babette Deutsch: "Silence"
1 min
1917
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.: "My Song"
1 min
1918
Hala Alyan: "Object Permanence"
2 min
1919
Safia Elhillo: "Ode to Sudanese-Americans"
3 min
1920
beyza ozer: "on holding rose water"
1 min
1921
Ladan Osman: "Take Wing Tempo"
2 min
1922
Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The New Decade"
1 min
1923
George Marion McClellan: "A January Dandelion"
1 min
1924
Léonie Adams: "Never Enough of Living"
1 min
1925
Jamila Woods: "Day 29 (2020)"
1 min