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
1601
Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"
2 min
1602
Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"
2 min
1603
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1604
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1605
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min
1606
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min
1607
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1608
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1609
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1610
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1611
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1612
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1613
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1614
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1615
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1616
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1617
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1618
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1619
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1620
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1621
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1622
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1623
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1624
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1625
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min