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