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
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1902
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1903
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1904
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1905
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1906
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1907
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1908
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1909
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1910
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1911
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1912
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1913
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1914
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1915
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1916
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1917
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1918
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1919
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
1920
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
1921
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
1922
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min
1923
Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"
1 min
1924
Babette Deutsch: "Silence"
1 min
1925
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.: "My Song"
1 min