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
1526
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: "Caprice"
2 min
1527
Narciso Tondreau: "Yesterday and To-Day"
2 min
1528
Shara McCallum: from "Passage"
5 min
1529
Aurielle Marie: "pantoum for aiyana & not a sin...
3 min
1530
francine j. harris: "Burden, old story."
3 min
1531
Bettina Judd: "Not My Ancestors"
3 min
1532
Ada Limón: "Lover"
3 min
1533
Juana de Ibarbourou: "Bond"
3 min
1534
Conceição Lima and David Shook: "Afroinsularity"
8 min
1535
Ama Codjoe: "Primordial Mirror"
3 min
1536
Guest Editor Interview: October Guest Editor Sa...
15 min
1537
Tonya M. Foster: from "In the After"
5 min
1538
Mary-Kim Arnold: "The Maze"
4 min
1539
Suzi F. Garcia: "A Modified Villanelle for My C...
3 min
1540
Balam Rodrigo and Dan Bellm: "The Patron Saints"
6 min
1541
Juan Ramón Jiménez: "One Night"
2 min
1542
Lauri García Dueñas and Olivia Lott: "0"
8 min
1543
John Keene: "Looking at Photos"
3 min
1544
Douglas Kearney: "The Thing of Nature That Defi...
3 min
1545
Monica Youn: "Leave"
3 min
1546
Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"
2 min
1547
Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"
2 min
1548
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1549
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1550
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min