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
1451
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1452
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1453
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min
1454
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min
1455
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1456
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1457
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1458
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1459
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1460
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1461
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1462
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1463
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1464
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1465
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1466
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1467
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1468
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1469
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1470
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1471
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1472
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1473
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1474
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1475
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min