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
851
Amado Nervo: "To Leonora"
4 min
852
Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles: "Juggler"
3 min
853
Samiya Bashir: "Some days of wine and pastry"
6 min
854
Wendy Xu: "Notes on Sentence Crossing"
4 min
855
Mona Kareem: "Masters and Lovers"
3 min
856
S*an D. Henry Smith: "us girls"
3 min
857
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar: "Women of the 1980s"
3 min
858
Salomón de la Selva: "Tropical Town"
3 min
859
Iryna Shuvalova: "a moving grove"
4 min
860
Carmen Giménez: "Ode to People Who Hate Me"
3 min
861
Felicia Zamora: "Inner"
4 min
862
Joan Naviyuk Kane: "After Anchorage IV"
3 min
863
Ching-In Chen: "Breath for Metal"
4 min
864
Natalie Shapero: "Long Week Talking"
2 min
865
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: "The Palace-Burner"
5 min
866
Edgar Guest: "Home"
4 min
867
Willyce Kim: "Places"
3 min
868
Guest Editor Interview: September 2023 Guest Ed...
17 min
869
M. NourbeSe Philip: "frigates that take us land...
4 min
870
Julie Ezelle-Patton: [Aeons quest eye on]
3 min
871
Prageeta Sharma: "Lateral Violence"
5 min
872
Julia Bloch: "Valley Oak"
2 min
873
Marianne Moore: "Black Earth"
6 min
874
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Old Age"
3 min
875
Anne Carson: "Short Talk on Pain"
2 min