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
1551
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min
1552
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1553
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1554
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1555
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1556
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1557
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1558
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1559
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1560
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1561
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1562
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1563
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1564
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1565
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1566
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1567
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1568
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1569
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1570
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1571
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1572
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1573
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1574
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1575
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min