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
1576
Monica Youn: "Leave"
3 min
1577
Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"
2 min
1578
Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"
2 min
1579
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1580
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1581
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min
1582
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min
1583
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1584
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1585
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1586
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1587
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1588
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1589
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1590
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1591
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1592
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1593
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1594
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1595
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1596
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1597
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1598
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1599
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1600
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min