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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
1001
Douglas Kearney: "The Thing of Nature That Defi...
3 min
1002
Monica Youn: "Leave"
3 min
1003
Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"
2 min
1004
Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"
2 min
1005
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1006
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1007
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min
1008
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min
1009
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1010
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1011
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1012
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1013
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1014
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1015
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1016
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1017
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1018
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1019
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1020
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1021
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1022
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1023
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1024
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1025
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min