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
26
Sheila Maldonado: "herederos de cero"
3 min
27
David Henderson: "Blues Franchise"
4 min
28
Andrei Codrescu: "my yoga teacher kassandra"
2 min
29
Carlos Manuel Rivera: "Thanatos and Technophilia"
3 min
30
Sahar Romani: "Sign"
3 min
31
Alice Meynell: "West Wind in Winter"
3 min
32
Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald: "A Winter Day"
5 min
33
Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"
3 min
34
Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
35
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
36
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
37
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
38
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
39
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
40
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
41
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
42
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
43
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min
44
Felix Cortes: "In the Beginning, There was the ...
5 min
45
Emily Dickinson: "As if some little Arctic flower"
2 min
46
Emily Pauline Johnson: "A Cry from an Indian Wife"
6 min
47
Guest Editor Interview: December 2024 Guest Edi...
10 min
48
Lance Henson: "Untitled"
1 min
49
Luci Tapahonso: "Wooden Window Frames"
5 min
50
Elizabeth Woody: "Meetings"
3 min