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