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
576
Simon Shieh: "Poem Addressed to You"
5 min
577
Lyz Soto: "Today I Am Full of Birds"
5 min
578
Kamini Roy: "In the Light"
4 min
579
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger: "Midmorning"
3 min
580
Rajiv Mohabir: "Water-Owl, Cuvier’s Beaked Whale"
5 min
581
Aimee Suzara: "Birthing Woman as Viscera-Sucker"
4 min
582
Bao Phi: "To The People Who Have Resisted the U...
4 min
583
Anjoli Roy: "Last"
4 min
584
Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner: "Kaōnōn"
2 min
585
Tu Fu: "The Excursion"
5 min
586
Solomon ibn Gabirol: "Night-Piece"
5 min
587
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Duplex for the Sick & Tired"
3 min
588
Marisa Lin: "Tiananmen Square, 1989"
5 min
589
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "We Live We Live"
8 min
590
Lehua M. Taitano: "When The World Falls in Arou...
5 min
591
essa may ranapiri: "Te Uto O Te Ika A Maaui / T...
2 min
592
Dante Di Stefano: "Green Burial Unsonnet"
3 min
593
Li Bai: "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: ...
5 min
594
Chandanie Somwaru: "Doodhpitty // Cidium"
3 min
595
Hala Alyan: "Siri as Mother"
3 min
596
Jake Eduardo Vermaas: "[ode to the water beneat...
3 min
597
Angela Peñaredondo: "harvest"
4 min
598
Aimee Nezhukumatathil: "First Time Brushing Tee...
2 min
599
Sarah McCartt-Jackson: "Borrow"
2 min
600
Moses ibn Ezra: “Nachum: Spring Songs”
8 min