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
Juan Ramón Jiménez: "One Night"
2 min
1502
Lauri García Dueñas and Olivia Lott: "0"
8 min
1503
John Keene: "Looking at Photos"
3 min
1504
Douglas Kearney: "The Thing of Nature That Defi...
3 min
1505
Monica Youn: "Leave"
3 min
1506
Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"
2 min
1507
Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"
2 min
1508
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1509
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1510
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min
1511
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min
1512
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1513
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1514
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1515
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1516
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1517
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1518
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1519
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1520
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1521
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1522
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1523
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1524
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1525
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min