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
1501
Shara McCallum: from "Passage"
5 min
1502
Aurielle Marie: "pantoum for aiyana & not a sin...
3 min
1503
francine j. harris: "Burden, old story."
3 min
1504
Bettina Judd: "Not My Ancestors"
3 min
1505
Ada Limón: "Lover"
3 min
1506
Juana de Ibarbourou: "Bond"
3 min
1507
Conceição Lima and David Shook: "Afroinsularity"
8 min
1508
Guest Editor Interview: October Guest Editor Sa...
15 min
1509
Ama Codjoe: "Primordial Mirror"
3 min
1510
Tonya M. Foster: from "In the After"
5 min
1511
Mary-Kim Arnold: "The Maze"
4 min
1512
Suzi F. Garcia: "A Modified Villanelle for My C...
3 min
1513
Balam Rodrigo and Dan Bellm: "The Patron Saints"
6 min
1514
Juan Ramón Jiménez: "One Night"
2 min
1515
Lauri García Dueñas and Olivia Lott: "0"
8 min
1516
John Keene: "Looking at Photos"
3 min
1517
Douglas Kearney: "The Thing of Nature That Defi...
3 min
1518
Monica Youn: "Leave"
3 min
1519
Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"
2 min
1520
Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"
2 min
1521
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1522
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1523
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min
1524
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min
1525
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min