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
326
Samiya Bashir: "Some days of wine and pastry"
6 min
327
Wendy Xu: "Notes on Sentence Crossing"
4 min
328
Mona Kareem: "Masters and Lovers"
3 min
329
S*an D. Henry Smith: "us girls"
3 min
330
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar: "Women of the 1980s"
3 min
331
Salomón de la Selva: "Tropical Town"
3 min
332
Iryna Shuvalova: "a moving grove"
4 min
333
Carmen Giménez: "Ode to People Who Hate Me"
3 min
334
Felicia Zamora: "Inner"
4 min
335
Joan Naviyuk Kane: "After Anchorage IV"
3 min
336
Ching-In Chen: "Breath for Metal"
4 min
337
Natalie Shapero: "Long Week Talking"
2 min
338
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: "The Palace-Burner"
5 min
339
Edgar Guest: "Home"
4 min
340
Willyce Kim: "Places"
3 min
341
Guest Editor Interview: September 2023 Guest Ed...
17 min
342
M. NourbeSe Philip: "frigates that take us land...
4 min
343
Julie Ezelle-Patton: [Aeons quest eye on]
3 min
344
Prageeta Sharma: "Lateral Violence"
5 min
345
Julia Bloch: "Valley Oak"
2 min
346
Marianne Moore: "Black Earth"
6 min
347
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Old Age"
3 min
348
Anne Carson: "Short Talk on Pain"
2 min
349
Lauren Russell: "Exposition"
4 min
350
Gabrielle Civil: "Three of Cups"
4 min