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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
601
Safiya Sinclair: "Planet Dread"
5 min
602
José Santos Chocano: "The Orchids"
3 min
603
Xavier Valcárcel: "Doppelgänger"
3 min
604
Aria Aber: "Oakland in Rain"
4 min
605
Santee Frazier: "Fugal"
2 min
606
Catherine Chen: "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right ...
3 min
607
Canisia Lubrin: from "The World After Rain"
4 min
608
Aaron Boothby: "Jurupa Hills / Riverside"
3 min
609
Amado Nervo: "To Leonora"
4 min
610
Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles: "Juggler"
3 min
611
Samiya Bashir: "Some days of wine and pastry"
6 min
612
Wendy Xu: "Notes on Sentence Crossing"
4 min
613
Mona Kareem: "Masters and Lovers"
3 min
614
S*an D. Henry Smith: "us girls"
3 min
615
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar: "Women of the 1980s"
3 min
616
Salomón de la Selva: "Tropical Town"
3 min
617
Iryna Shuvalova: "a moving grove"
4 min
618
Carmen Giménez: "Ode to People Who Hate Me"
3 min
619
Felicia Zamora: "Inner"
4 min
620
Joan Naviyuk Kane: "After Anchorage IV"
3 min
621
Ching-In Chen: "Breath for Metal"
4 min
622
Natalie Shapero: "Long Week Talking"
2 min
623
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: "The Palace-Burner"
5 min
624
Edgar Guest: "Home"
4 min
625
Willyce Kim: "Places"
3 min