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.

Books
1901
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1902
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1903
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1904
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1905
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1906
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1907
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1908
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1909
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1910
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1911
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1912
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1913
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1914
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1915
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
1916
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
1917
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
1918
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min
1919
Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"
1 min
1920
Babette Deutsch: "Silence"
1 min
1921
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.: "My Song"
1 min
1922
Hala Alyan: "Object Permanence"
2 min
1923
Safia Elhillo: "Ode to Sudanese-Americans"
3 min
1924
beyza ozer: "on holding rose water"
1 min
1925
Ladan Osman: "Take Wing Tempo"
2 min