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
701
Alberto Ríos: "To Mars from Arizona"
4 min
702
Nellie Wong: "Being pregnant is a dream"
4 min
703
Safiya Sinclair: "Planet Dread"
5 min
704
José Santos Chocano: "The Orchids"
3 min
705
Xavier Valcárcel: "Doppelgänger"
3 min
706
Aria Aber: "Oakland in Rain"
4 min
707
Santee Frazier: "Fugal"
2 min
708
Catherine Chen: "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right ...
3 min
709
Canisia Lubrin: from "The World After Rain"
4 min
710
Aaron Boothby: "Jurupa Hills / Riverside"
3 min
711
Amado Nervo: "To Leonora"
4 min
712
Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles: "Juggler"
3 min
713
Samiya Bashir: "Some days of wine and pastry"
6 min
714
Wendy Xu: "Notes on Sentence Crossing"
4 min
715
Mona Kareem: "Masters and Lovers"
3 min
716
S*an D. Henry Smith: "us girls"
3 min
717
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar: "Women of the 1980s"
3 min
718
Salomón de la Selva: "Tropical Town"
3 min
719
Iryna Shuvalova: "a moving grove"
4 min
720
Carmen Giménez: "Ode to People Who Hate Me"
3 min
721
Felicia Zamora: "Inner"
4 min
722
Joan Naviyuk Kane: "After Anchorage IV"
3 min
723
Ching-In Chen: "Breath for Metal"
4 min
724
Natalie Shapero: "Long Week Talking"
2 min
725
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: "The Palace-Burner"
5 min