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.
2051
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
2052
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
2053
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
2054
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
2055
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
2056
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
2057
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
2058
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
2059
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
2060
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
2061
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
2062
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
2063
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
2064
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
2065
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
2066
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
2067
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
2068
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
2069
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
2070
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
2071
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
2072
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
2073
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min
2074
Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"
1 min
2075
Franny Choi: "Hangul Abecedarian"
0 min