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
951
Safiya Sinclair: "Planet Dread"
5 min
952
José Santos Chocano: "The Orchids"
3 min
953
Xavier Valcárcel: "Doppelgänger"
3 min
954
Aria Aber: "Oakland in Rain"
4 min
955
Santee Frazier: "Fugal"
2 min
956
Catherine Chen: "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right ...
3 min
957
Canisia Lubrin: from "The World After Rain"
4 min
958
Aaron Boothby: "Jurupa Hills / Riverside"
3 min
959
Amado Nervo: "To Leonora"
4 min
960
Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles: "Juggler"
3 min
961
Samiya Bashir: "Some days of wine and pastry"
6 min
962
Wendy Xu: "Notes on Sentence Crossing"
4 min
963
Mona Kareem: "Masters and Lovers"
3 min
964
S*an D. Henry Smith: "us girls"
3 min
965
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar: "Women of the 1980s"
3 min
966
Salomón de la Selva: "Tropical Town"
3 min
967
Iryna Shuvalova: "a moving grove"
4 min
968
Carmen Giménez: "Ode to People Who Hate Me"
3 min
969
Felicia Zamora: "Inner"
4 min
970
Joan Naviyuk Kane: "After Anchorage IV"
3 min
971
Ching-In Chen: "Breath for Metal"
4 min
972
Natalie Shapero: "Long Week Talking"
2 min
973
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: "The Palace-Burner"
5 min
974
Edgar Guest: "Home"
4 min
975
Willyce Kim: "Places"
3 min