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
1376
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1377
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1378
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1379
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1380
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1381
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1382
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1383
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1384
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1385
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1386
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1387
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1388
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1389
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1390
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1391
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1392
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1393
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1394
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1395
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1396
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1397
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1398
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1399
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1400
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min