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
801
Samiya Bashir: "Some days of wine and pastry"
6 min
802
Wendy Xu: "Notes on Sentence Crossing"
4 min
803
Mona Kareem: "Masters and Lovers"
3 min
804
S*an D. Henry Smith: "us girls"
3 min
805
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar: "Women of the 1980s"
3 min
806
Salomón de la Selva: "Tropical Town"
3 min
807
Iryna Shuvalova: "a moving grove"
4 min
808
Carmen Giménez: "Ode to People Who Hate Me"
3 min
809
Felicia Zamora: "Inner"
4 min
810
Joan Naviyuk Kane: "After Anchorage IV"
3 min
811
Ching-In Chen: "Breath for Metal"
4 min
812
Natalie Shapero: "Long Week Talking"
2 min
813
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: "The Palace-Burner"
5 min
814
Edgar Guest: "Home"
4 min
815
Willyce Kim: "Places"
3 min
816
Guest Editor Interview: September 2023 Guest Ed...
17 min
817
M. NourbeSe Philip: "frigates that take us land...
4 min
818
Julie Ezelle-Patton: [Aeons quest eye on]
3 min
819
Prageeta Sharma: "Lateral Violence"
5 min
820
Julia Bloch: "Valley Oak"
2 min
821
Marianne Moore: "Black Earth"
6 min
822
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Old Age"
3 min
823
Anne Carson: "Short Talk on Pain"
2 min
824
Lauren Russell: "Exposition"
4 min
825
Gabrielle Civil: "Three of Cups"
4 min