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
926
Alberto Ríos: "To Mars from Arizona"
4 min
927
Nellie Wong: "Being pregnant is a dream"
4 min
928
Safiya Sinclair: "Planet Dread"
5 min
929
José Santos Chocano: "The Orchids"
3 min
930
Xavier Valcárcel: "Doppelgänger"
3 min
931
Aria Aber: "Oakland in Rain"
4 min
932
Santee Frazier: "Fugal"
2 min
933
Catherine Chen: "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right ...
3 min
934
Canisia Lubrin: from "The World After Rain"
4 min
935
Aaron Boothby: "Jurupa Hills / Riverside"
3 min
936
Amado Nervo: "To Leonora"
4 min
937
Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles: "Juggler"
3 min
938
Samiya Bashir: "Some days of wine and pastry"
6 min
939
Wendy Xu: "Notes on Sentence Crossing"
4 min
940
Mona Kareem: "Masters and Lovers"
3 min
941
S*an D. Henry Smith: "us girls"
3 min
942
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar: "Women of the 1980s"
3 min
943
Salomón de la Selva: "Tropical Town"
3 min
944
Iryna Shuvalova: "a moving grove"
4 min
945
Carmen Giménez: "Ode to People Who Hate Me"
3 min
946
Felicia Zamora: "Inner"
4 min
947
Joan Naviyuk Kane: "After Anchorage IV"
3 min
948
Ching-In Chen: "Breath for Metal"
4 min
949
Natalie Shapero: "Long Week Talking"
2 min
950
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: "The Palace-Burner"
5 min