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
2176
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
2177
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
2178
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
2179
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
2180
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
2181
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
2182
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
2183
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
2184
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
2185
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
2186
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
2187
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
2188
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
2189
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
2190
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
2191
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
2192
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
2193
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
2194
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
2195
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
2196
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
2197
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
2198
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
2199
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min
2200
Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"
1 min