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
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min
1602
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1603
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1604
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1605
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1606
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1607
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1608
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1609
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1610
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1611
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1612
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1613
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1614
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1615
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1616
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1617
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1618
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1619
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1620
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1621
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1622
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1623
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1624
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1625
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min