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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
251
Edwin Torres: "túmba la caña jibarito"
4 min
252
Myrna Nieves: "My Dead Relatives"
4 min
253
Urayoán Noel: "sueño convulso (seizure dream)"
5 min
254
Nancy Mercado: "2020 A Year to Forget"
2 min
255
Alberto Ríos: "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
6 min
256
Charlotte Brontë: "Winter Stores"
4 min
257
Sheila Maldonado: "herederos de cero"
3 min
258
David Henderson: "Blues Franchise"
4 min
259
Andrei Codrescu: "my yoga teacher kassandra"
2 min
260
Carlos Manuel Rivera: "Thanatos and Technophilia"
3 min
261
Sahar Romani: "Sign"
3 min
262
Alice Meynell: "West Wind in Winter"
3 min
263
Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald: "A Winter Day"
5 min
264
Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"
3 min
265
Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
266
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
267
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
268
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
269
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
270
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
271
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
272
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
273
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
274
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min
275
Felix Cortes: "In the Beginning, There was the ...
5 min