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
801
Lyz Soto: "Today I Am Full of Birds"
5 min
802
Kamini Roy: "In the Light"
4 min
803
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger: "Midmorning"
3 min
804
Rajiv Mohabir: "Water-Owl, Cuvier’s Beaked Whale"
5 min
805
Aimee Suzara: "Birthing Woman as Viscera-Sucker"
4 min
806
Bao Phi: "To The People Who Have Resisted the U...
4 min
807
Anjoli Roy: "Last"
4 min
808
Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner: "Kaōnōn"
2 min
809
Tu Fu: "The Excursion"
5 min
810
Solomon ibn Gabirol: "Night-Piece"
5 min
811
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Duplex for the Sick & Tired"
3 min
812
Marisa Lin: "Tiananmen Square, 1989"
5 min
813
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "We Live We Live"
8 min
814
Lehua M. Taitano: "When The World Falls in Arou...
5 min
815
essa may ranapiri: "Te Uto O Te Ika A Maaui / T...
2 min
816
Dante Di Stefano: "Green Burial Unsonnet"
3 min
817
Li Bai: "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: ...
5 min
818
Chandanie Somwaru: "Doodhpitty // Cidium"
3 min
819
Hala Alyan: "Siri as Mother"
3 min
820
Jake Eduardo Vermaas: "[ode to the water beneat...
3 min
821
Angela Peñaredondo: "harvest"
4 min
822
Aimee Nezhukumatathil: "First Time Brushing Tee...
2 min
823
Sarah McCartt-Jackson: "Borrow"
2 min
824
Moses ibn Ezra: “Nachum: Spring Songs”
8 min
825
Donovan Kūhiō Colleps: "He Mea Māloʻeloʻe #3"
4 min