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
Alice Meynell: "West Wind in Winter"
3 min
252
Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald: "A Winter Day"
5 min
253
Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"
3 min
254
Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
255
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
256
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
257
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
258
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
259
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
260
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
261
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
262
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
263
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min
264
Felix Cortes: "In the Beginning, There was the ...
5 min
265
Emily Dickinson: "As if some little Arctic flower"
2 min
266
Guest Editor Interview: December 2024 Guest Edi...
10 min
267
Emily Pauline Johnson: "A Cry from an Indian Wife"
6 min
268
Lance Henson: "Untitled"
1 min
269
Luci Tapahonso: "Wooden Window Frames"
5 min
270
Elizabeth Woody: "Meetings"
3 min
271
Ofelia Zepeda: "The Home of the Sacred"
2 min
272
Max Early: "Delayza’s Necklace"
3 min
273
Charles G. Eastman: "The Yellow Corn"
3 min
274
Frances Sargent Osgood: "Thank God, I Glory in ...
4 min
275
Kimberly Blaeser: "I was built by inherited hun...
4 min