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