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
Mary Weston Fordham: "Passing of the Old Year"
4 min
552
Bob Holman: "Scotty and the Rib Tips"
4 min
553
Edwin Torres: "túmba la caña jibarito"
4 min
554
Myrna Nieves: "My Dead Relatives"
4 min
555
Urayoán Noel: "sueño convulso (seizure dream)"
5 min
556
Nancy Mercado: "2020 A Year to Forget"
2 min
557
Alberto Ríos: "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
6 min
558
Charlotte Brontë: "Winter Stores"
4 min
559
Sheila Maldonado: "herederos de cero"
3 min
560
David Henderson: "Blues Franchise"
4 min
561
Andrei Codrescu: "my yoga teacher kassandra"
2 min
562
Carlos Manuel Rivera: "Thanatos and Technophilia"
3 min
563
Sahar Romani: "Sign"
3 min
564
Alice Meynell: "West Wind in Winter"
3 min
565
Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald: "A Winter Day"
5 min
566
Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"
3 min
567
Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
568
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
569
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
570
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
571
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
572
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
573
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
574
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
575
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min