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
626
Lyz Soto: "Today I Am Full of Birds"
5 min
627
Kamini Roy: "In the Light"
4 min
628
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger: "Midmorning"
3 min
629
Rajiv Mohabir: "Water-Owl, Cuvier’s Beaked Whale"
5 min
630
Aimee Suzara: "Birthing Woman as Viscera-Sucker"
4 min
631
Bao Phi: "To The People Who Have Resisted the U...
4 min
632
Anjoli Roy: "Last"
4 min
633
Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner: "Kaōnōn"
2 min
634
Tu Fu: "The Excursion"
5 min
635
Solomon ibn Gabirol: "Night-Piece"
5 min
636
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Duplex for the Sick & Tired"
3 min
637
Marisa Lin: "Tiananmen Square, 1989"
5 min
638
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "We Live We Live"
8 min
639
Lehua M. Taitano: "When The World Falls in Arou...
5 min
640
essa may ranapiri: "Te Uto O Te Ika A Maaui / T...
2 min
641
Dante Di Stefano: "Green Burial Unsonnet"
3 min
642
Li Bai: "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: ...
5 min
643
Chandanie Somwaru: "Doodhpitty // Cidium"
3 min
644
Hala Alyan: "Siri as Mother"
3 min
645
Jake Eduardo Vermaas: "[ode to the water beneat...
3 min
646
Angela Peñaredondo: "harvest"
4 min
647
Aimee Nezhukumatathil: "First Time Brushing Tee...
2 min
648
Sarah McCartt-Jackson: "Borrow"
2 min
649
Moses ibn Ezra: “Nachum: Spring Songs”
8 min
650
Donovan Kūhiō Colleps: "He Mea Māloʻeloʻe #3"
4 min