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
476
Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
477
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
478
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
479
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
480
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
481
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
482
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
483
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
484
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
485
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min
486
Felix Cortes: "In the Beginning, There was the ...
5 min
487
Emily Dickinson: "As if some little Arctic flower"
2 min
488
Emily Pauline Johnson: "A Cry from an Indian Wife"
6 min
489
Guest Editor Interview: December 2024 Guest Edi...
10 min
490
Lance Henson: "Untitled"
1 min
491
Luci Tapahonso: "Wooden Window Frames"
5 min
492
Elizabeth Woody: "Meetings"
3 min
493
Ofelia Zepeda: "The Home of the Sacred"
2 min
494
Max Early: "Delayza’s Necklace"
3 min
495
Charles G. Eastman: "The Yellow Corn"
3 min
496
Frances Sargent Osgood: "Thank God, I Glory in ...
4 min
497
Kimberly Blaeser: "I was built by inherited hun...
4 min
498
Annie Wenstrup: "As Girl"
3 min
499
Kenyatta Rogers: "Ars Poetica"
2 min
500
Esther Belin: "Personal Poem"
4 min