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
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David Cruz and Anthony Geist: “Immigrants”
2 min
52
Shivanee Ramlochan: “The Meaning of Trees”
4 min
53
Rolando Kattan, Katherine M. Hedeen, and Víctor...
3 min
54
José Mármol and Eileen O’Connor: “Another April...
6 min
55
James Sacré and Youmna Chamieh: “One day writi...
2 min
56
Margaret Fuller: “Freedom and Truth”
2 min
57
Tu Fu translated by Marilyn Chin: “Song of My H...
6 min
58
Bejan Matur and Eleanor Wright: “As Though”
3 min
59
Najwan Darwish and Kareem James Abu-Zeid: “In t...
3 min
60
Immanuel Mifsud and Ruth Ward: “Stone”
4 min
61
Yolanda Castaño and Samantha Schnee: “Wheel of ...
5 min
62
Damir Šodan and James Meetze: “Poetry in Small...
4 min
63
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: “Sonnet LIX: Love’s Las...
3 min
64
Yaxkin Melchy Ramos and Marcelo Hernandez Casti...
8 min
65
Andrea Cote and Craig Epplin: “Somber Bull”
4 min
66
Tomica Bajsić and Nina Bajsić: “When You Hit Yo...
3 min
67
Anthony Joseph: “Empires”
2 min
68
Katerina Iliopoulou and Jackson Watson: “Cape T...
4 min
69
Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa: “The Wicked Lady”
2 min
70
Guest Editor Interview: September 2025 Guest Ed...
13 min
71
Lola Ridge: From “IV. The Stone” [The morning c...
4 min
72
Léonie Adams: “Early Waking”
3 min
73
Geoffrey Brock: “Goodbye”
2 min
74
Atsuro Riley: “We Be Ludere”
1 min
75
Ari Banias: “Task”
3 min