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
Oswaldo Vargas: "Mister"
2 min
1127
Dujie Tahat: "On Desire"
2 min
1128
Alan Pelaez Lopez: "Overalls"
3 min
1129
Anni Liu: "Lake of the Isles"
3 min
1130
John Clare: "An Invite to Eternity"
4 min
1131
Christina Rossetti: "A Coast-Nightmare"
5 min
1132
Laurel Chen: "Greensickness"
4 min
1133
Esther Lin: "Azaleas"
3 min
1134
Aline Mello: "The Immigrant"
3 min
1135
féi hernandez: "Singing Funeral"
4 min
1136
Farid Matuk: "Mimesis"
3 min
1137
Thomas Hardy: "The Shadow on the Stone"
4 min
1138
Carolina Coronado: "The Lost Bird"
4 min
1139
Ariana Brown: "For everyone who tried on the sl...
5 min
1140
Afua Ansong: "what we did while waiting for the...
4 min
1141
Jesús I. Valles: "Barnes & Noble, 1999"
3 min
1142
Carolina Ebeid: "from 'Dauerwunder, a brief rec...
5 min
1143
Tobi Kassim: "A Blind Spot, Awash"
3 min
1144
Rafael Arévalo Martínez: "My Life Is a Memory"
3 min
1145
Alfonso Guillén Zelaya: "Lord, I Ask a Garden. ...
4 min
1146
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "Angelica Root"
3 min
1147
Denice Frohman: "The Art of Shooting in the Dark"
3 min
1148
Wo Chan: "Wonder Wheel"
4 min
1149
Anthony Cody: "'Stop. Go put your shoes back on...
3 min
1150
Marwa Helal: "the poem is a dream telling you i...
2 min