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
1151
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1152
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1153
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1154
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1155
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1156
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1157
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1158
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1159
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1160
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1161
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1162
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1163
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1164
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1165
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1166
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1167
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1168
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1169
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1170
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1171
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1172
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1173
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1174
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1175
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min