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.
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Ariana Brown: “The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fa...
4 min
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Shira Erlichman: “I Was Born Again the First Ti...
5 min
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Kamelya Omayma Youssef: “My earth which is mine...
3 min
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Moncho Alvarado: “An Erasure of Senate Bill 111”
3 min
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Jimin Seo: “In Memoriam [±That after all this...
4 min
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Mina Loy: “Gertrude Stein”
2 min
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “St. Telemachus”
7 min
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Eva Candelaria Sosa: “Afterwards”
2 min
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Lan Lesmeister: “Lube, Ars Poetica”
3 min
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Janani Balasubramanian: “Quiet”
3 min
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Andrea Lawlor: “Position Paper #53: National Ar...
2 min
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Billy-Ray Belcourt: “Bildungssonnet”
2 min
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Erasmus Darwin: From “The Temple of Nature,” Ca...
6 min
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Tao Yuanming, translated by Arthur Waley: “[A l...
2 min
90
Danez Smith: “Do You Know What Today Is?”
3 min
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William Ward Butler: “Fidelity”
3 min
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Alexis N. Garcia: “Alexa for Seniors in Easy St...
3 min
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Muriel Leung: “At the end of the world, you tel...
3 min
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Kyle Carrero Lopez: “Statement of Purpose”
3 min
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Allen Tate: “Mr. Pope”
3 min
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Guest Editor Interview: June 2026 Guest Editor ...
13 min
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Kashiana Singh: “Bone by Bone: A Hypochondriac ...
3 min
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Sarah Ghazal Ali: “Künstlerroman”
3 min
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Safia Elhillo: “Abecedarian Beginning with Alif”
4 min
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Megan Fernandes: “Every Person Is an Address, E...
4 min