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
1476
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min
1477
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1478
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1479
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1480
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1481
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1482
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1483
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1484
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1485
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1486
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1487
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1488
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1489
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1490
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1491
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1492
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1493
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1494
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1495
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1496
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1497
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1498
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1499
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1500
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min