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
1126
Narciso Tondreau: "Yesterday and To-Day"
2 min
1127
Shara McCallum: from "Passage"
5 min
1128
Aurielle Marie: "pantoum for aiyana & not a sin...
3 min
1129
francine j. harris: "Burden, old story."
3 min
1130
Bettina Judd: "Not My Ancestors"
3 min
1131
Ada Limón: "Lover"
3 min
1132
Juana de Ibarbourou: "Bond"
3 min
1133
Conceição Lima and David Shook: "Afroinsularity"
8 min
1134
Ama Codjoe: "Primordial Mirror"
3 min
1135
Guest Editor Interview: October Guest Editor Sa...
15 min
1136
Tonya M. Foster: from "In the After"
5 min
1137
Mary-Kim Arnold: "The Maze"
4 min
1138
Suzi F. Garcia: "A Modified Villanelle for My C...
3 min
1139
Balam Rodrigo and Dan Bellm: "The Patron Saints"
6 min
1140
Juan Ramón Jiménez: "One Night"
2 min
1141
Lauri García Dueñas and Olivia Lott: "0"
8 min
1142
John Keene: "Looking at Photos"
3 min
1143
Douglas Kearney: "The Thing of Nature That Defi...
3 min
1144
Monica Youn: "Leave"
3 min
1145
Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"
2 min
1146
Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"
2 min
1147
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1148
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1149
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min
1150
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min