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
551
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
552
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
553
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
554
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
555
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
556
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
557
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
558
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
559
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min
560
Felix Cortes: "In the Beginning, There was the ...
5 min
561
Emily Dickinson: "As if some little Arctic flower"
2 min
562
Emily Pauline Johnson: "A Cry from an Indian Wife"
6 min
563
Guest Editor Interview: December 2024 Guest Edi...
10 min
564
Lance Henson: "Untitled"
1 min
565
Luci Tapahonso: "Wooden Window Frames"
5 min
566
Elizabeth Woody: "Meetings"
3 min
567
Ofelia Zepeda: "The Home of the Sacred"
2 min
568
Max Early: "Delayza’s Necklace"
3 min
569
Charles G. Eastman: "The Yellow Corn"
3 min
570
Frances Sargent Osgood: "Thank God, I Glory in ...
4 min
571
Kimberly Blaeser: "I was built by inherited hun...
4 min
572
Annie Wenstrup: "As Girl"
3 min
573
Kenyatta Rogers: "Ars Poetica"
2 min
574
Esther Belin: "Personal Poem"
4 min
575
Amber McCrary: "Stories"
3 min