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
Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"
2 min
1502
Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"
2 min
1503
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1504
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1505
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min
1506
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min
1507
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1508
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1509
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1510
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1511
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1512
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1513
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1514
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1515
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1516
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1517
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1518
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1519
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1520
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1521
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1522
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1523
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1524
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1525
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min