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
726
Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
727
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
728
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
729
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
730
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
731
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
732
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
733
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
734
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
735
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min
736
Felix Cortes: "In the Beginning, There was the ...
5 min
737
Emily Dickinson: "As if some little Arctic flower"
2 min
738
Guest Editor Interview: December 2024 Guest Edi...
10 min
739
Emily Pauline Johnson: "A Cry from an Indian Wife"
6 min
740
Lance Henson: "Untitled"
1 min
741
Luci Tapahonso: "Wooden Window Frames"
5 min
742
Elizabeth Woody: "Meetings"
3 min
743
Ofelia Zepeda: "The Home of the Sacred"
2 min
744
Max Early: "Delayza’s Necklace"
3 min
745
Charles G. Eastman: "The Yellow Corn"
3 min
746
Frances Sargent Osgood: "Thank God, I Glory in ...
4 min
747
Kimberly Blaeser: "I was built by inherited hun...
4 min
748
Annie Wenstrup: "As Girl"
3 min
749
Kenyatta Rogers: "Ars Poetica"
2 min
750
Esther Belin: "Personal Poem"
4 min