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
501
Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"
3 min
502
Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
503
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
504
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
505
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
506
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
507
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
508
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
509
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
510
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
511
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min
512
Felix Cortes: "In the Beginning, There was the ...
5 min
513
Emily Dickinson: "As if some little Arctic flower"
2 min
514
Guest Editor Interview: December 2024 Guest Edi...
10 min
515
Emily Pauline Johnson: "A Cry from an Indian Wife"
6 min
516
Lance Henson: "Untitled"
1 min
517
Luci Tapahonso: "Wooden Window Frames"
5 min
518
Elizabeth Woody: "Meetings"
3 min
519
Ofelia Zepeda: "The Home of the Sacred"
2 min
520
Max Early: "Delayza’s Necklace"
3 min
521
Charles G. Eastman: "The Yellow Corn"
3 min
522
Frances Sargent Osgood: "Thank God, I Glory in ...
4 min
523
Kimberly Blaeser: "I was built by inherited hun...
4 min
524
Annie Wenstrup: "As Girl"
3 min
525
Kenyatta Rogers: "Ars Poetica"
2 min