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
Narciso Tondreau: "Yesterday and To-Day"
2 min
1602
Shara McCallum: from "Passage"
5 min
1603
Aurielle Marie: "pantoum for aiyana & not a sin...
3 min
1604
francine j. harris: "Burden, old story."
3 min
1605
Bettina Judd: "Not My Ancestors"
3 min
1606
Ada Limón: "Lover"
3 min
1607
Juana de Ibarbourou: "Bond"
3 min
1608
Conceição Lima and David Shook: "Afroinsularity"
8 min
1609
Guest Editor Interview: October Guest Editor Sa...
15 min
1610
Ama Codjoe: "Primordial Mirror"
3 min
1611
Tonya M. Foster: from "In the After"
5 min
1612
Mary-Kim Arnold: "The Maze"
4 min
1613
Suzi F. Garcia: "A Modified Villanelle for My C...
3 min
1614
Balam Rodrigo and Dan Bellm: "The Patron Saints"
6 min
1615
Juan Ramón Jiménez: "One Night"
2 min
1616
Lauri García Dueñas and Olivia Lott: "0"
8 min
1617
John Keene: "Looking at Photos"
3 min
1618
Douglas Kearney: "The Thing of Nature That Defi...
3 min
1619
Monica Youn: "Leave"
3 min
1620
Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"
2 min
1621
Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"
2 min
1622
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1623
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1624
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min
1625
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min