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