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
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: "Caprice"
2 min
1452
Narciso Tondreau: "Yesterday and To-Day"
2 min
1453
Shara McCallum: from "Passage"
5 min
1454
Aurielle Marie: "pantoum for aiyana & not a sin...
3 min
1455
francine j. harris: "Burden, old story."
3 min
1456
Bettina Judd: "Not My Ancestors"
3 min
1457
Ada Limón: "Lover"
3 min
1458
Juana de Ibarbourou: "Bond"
3 min
1459
Conceição Lima and David Shook: "Afroinsularity"
8 min
1460
Guest Editor Interview: October Guest Editor Sa...
15 min
1461
Ama Codjoe: "Primordial Mirror"
3 min
1462
Tonya M. Foster: from "In the After"
5 min
1463
Mary-Kim Arnold: "The Maze"
4 min
1464
Suzi F. Garcia: "A Modified Villanelle for My C...
3 min
1465
Balam Rodrigo and Dan Bellm: "The Patron Saints"
6 min
1466
Juan Ramón Jiménez: "One Night"
2 min
1467
Lauri García Dueñas and Olivia Lott: "0"
8 min
1468
John Keene: "Looking at Photos"
3 min
1469
Douglas Kearney: "The Thing of Nature That Defi...
3 min
1470
Monica Youn: "Leave"
3 min
1471
Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"
2 min
1472
Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"
2 min
1473
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1474
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1475
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min