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
426
Kinsale Drake: "Rebuke/ /Spell"
3 min
427
Zaina Alsous: "To a Young Poet"
4 min
428
Mónica Alexandra Jiménez: "Theft"
2 min
429
MaKshya Tolbert: "Ways to Measure Trees "
3 min
430
Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu: "host"
2 min
431
William Moore: "Expectancy"
3 min
432
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Surrender"
3 min
433
Omar Berrada: "A Thistle Will Do"
3 min
434
Lily Painter: "Funk (#49 song)"
3 min
435
Youna Kwak: "After [I never feel so alive as wh...
2 min
436
Aldrin Regina Valdez: "January”
2 min
437
m.s. RedCherries: "playing america in spring
1 min
438
Blanche Taylor Dickinson: "Things Said When He ...
3 min
439
Frank Barbour Coffin: "The Negro’s 'America'”
3 min
440
Robert Hass: "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
3 min
441
Guest Editor Interview: February 2025 Guest Edi...
23 min
442
Catherine Bowman: "Pears"
3 min
443
James Hannaham: " Apophasis Now"
1 min
444
Denise Duhamel: "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"
2 min
445
Hisham Bustani: "An inauspicious day from the g...
8 min
446
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "The Smile of Innocence"
4 min
447
Richard Butler Glaenzer: "Star-Magic"
2 min
448
Mark Halliday: "Hoops with Nets"
3 min
449
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello: "The Houseguest"
3 min
450
Ashley M. Jones: "HOLYHEADHARRIET"
4 min