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
126
Myrna Nieves: "My Dead Relatives"
4 min
127
Urayoán Noel: "sueño convulso (seizure dream)"
5 min
128
Nancy Mercado: "2020 A Year to Forget"
2 min
129
Alberto Ríos: "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
6 min
130
Charlotte Brontë: "Winter Stores"
4 min
131
Sheila Maldonado: "herederos de cero"
3 min
132
David Henderson: "Blues Franchise"
4 min
133
Andrei Codrescu: "my yoga teacher kassandra"
2 min
134
Carlos Manuel Rivera: "Thanatos and Technophilia"
3 min
135
Sahar Romani: "Sign"
3 min
136
Alice Meynell: "West Wind in Winter"
3 min
137
Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald: "A Winter Day"
5 min
138
Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"
3 min
139
Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
140
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
141
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
142
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
143
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
144
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
145
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
146
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
147
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
148
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min
149
Felix Cortes: "In the Beginning, There was the ...
5 min
150
Emily Dickinson: "As if some little Arctic flower"
2 min