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
101
Bob Holman: "Scotty and the Rib Tips"
4 min
102
Edwin Torres: "túmba la caña jibarito"
4 min
103
Myrna Nieves: "My Dead Relatives"
4 min
104
Urayoán Noel: "sueño convulso (seizure dream)"
5 min
105
Nancy Mercado: "2020 A Year to Forget"
2 min
106
Alberto Ríos: "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
6 min
107
Charlotte Brontë: "Winter Stores"
4 min
108
Sheila Maldonado: "herederos de cero"
3 min
109
David Henderson: "Blues Franchise"
4 min
110
Andrei Codrescu: "my yoga teacher kassandra"
2 min
111
Carlos Manuel Rivera: "Thanatos and Technophilia"
3 min
112
Sahar Romani: "Sign"
3 min
113
Alice Meynell: "West Wind in Winter"
3 min
114
Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald: "A Winter Day"
5 min
115
Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"
3 min
116
Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
117
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
118
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
119
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
120
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
121
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
122
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
123
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
124
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
125
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min