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 Genevieve Shubeck. 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
Jerome Ellison Murphy: "Red Delicious"
2 min
1502
Celeste Guzmán Mendoza: "Man Praying—Encroachment"
3 min
1503
Rohan Chhetri: "Acedia Sestina"
4 min
1504
Truong Tran: from "begin again"
3 min
1505
Cathy Song: "April Moon"
2 min
1506
William Moore: "Here in the Time of the Winter ...
1 min
1507
Carrie Williams Clifford: "The New Year"
2 min
1508
Guest Editor Interview: January 2022 Guest Edit...
16 min
1509
Federico García Lorca: "Farewell"
2 min
1510
Karen Head: "Venus de Milo: On Being Rediscovered"
2 min
1511
Reginald Dwayne Betts: "Memorial Hoops"
4 min
1512
Adélia Prado: "Weather Forecast"
3 min
1513
Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"
3 min
1514
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1515
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1516
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1517
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1518
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1519
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1520
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1521
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1522
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1523
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1524
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1525
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min