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
276
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
277
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
278
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
279
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
280
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
281
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
282
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
283
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
284
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min
285
Felix Cortes: "In the Beginning, There was the ...
5 min
286
Emily Dickinson: "As if some little Arctic flower"
2 min
287
Guest Editor Interview: December 2024 Guest Edi...
10 min
288
Emily Pauline Johnson: "A Cry from an Indian Wife"
6 min
289
Lance Henson: "Untitled"
1 min
290
Luci Tapahonso: "Wooden Window Frames"
5 min
291
Elizabeth Woody: "Meetings"
3 min
292
Ofelia Zepeda: "The Home of the Sacred"
2 min
293
Max Early: "Delayza’s Necklace"
3 min
294
Charles G. Eastman: "The Yellow Corn"
3 min
295
Frances Sargent Osgood: "Thank God, I Glory in ...
4 min
296
Kimberly Blaeser: "I was built by inherited hun...
4 min
297
Annie Wenstrup: "As Girl"
3 min
298
Kenyatta Rogers: "Ars Poetica"
2 min
299
Esther Belin: "Personal Poem"
4 min
300
Amber McCrary: "Stories"
3 min