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.

Books
1151
Safiya Sinclair: "Planet Dread"
5 min
1152
José Santos Chocano: "The Orchids"
3 min
1153
Xavier Valcárcel: "Doppelgänger"
3 min
1154
Aria Aber: "Oakland in Rain"
4 min
1155
Santee Frazier: "Fugal"
2 min
1156
Catherine Chen: "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right ...
3 min
1157
Canisia Lubrin: from "The World After Rain"
4 min
1158
Aaron Boothby: "Jurupa Hills / Riverside"
3 min
1159
Amado Nervo: "To Leonora"
4 min
1160
Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles: "Juggler"
3 min
1161
Samiya Bashir: "Some days of wine and pastry"
6 min
1162
Wendy Xu: "Notes on Sentence Crossing"
4 min
1163
Mona Kareem: "Masters and Lovers"
3 min
1164
S*an D. Henry Smith: "us girls"
3 min
1165
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar: "Women of the 1980s"
3 min
1166
Salomón de la Selva: "Tropical Town"
3 min
1167
Iryna Shuvalova: "a moving grove"
4 min
1168
Carmen Giménez: "Ode to People Who Hate Me"
3 min
1169
Felicia Zamora: "Inner"
4 min
1170
Joan Naviyuk Kane: "After Anchorage IV"
3 min
1171
Ching-In Chen: "Breath for Metal"
4 min
1172
Natalie Shapero: "Long Week Talking"
2 min
1173
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: "The Palace-Burner"
5 min
1174
Edgar Guest: "Home"
4 min
1175
Willyce Kim: "Places"
3 min