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 Thea Matthews. 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
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
1602
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
1603
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
1604
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
1605
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
1606
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
1607
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
1608
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
1609
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
1610
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
1611
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min
1612
Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"
1 min
1613
Franny Choi: "Hangul Abecedarian"
0 min
1614
Gregory Pardlo: From "Giornata: On Faith"
0 min
1615
John Yau: "A Painter’s Thoughts"
2 min
1616
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "An Indian Love Song"
1 min
1617
Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Yesterday and To-morrow"
1 min
1618
Laura Kasischke: "Prayer"
1 min
1619
Lidija Dimkovska: "Journey"
5 min
1620
Marilyn Chin: "Sage #3"
1 min
1621
Martha Collins: "Again Later"
0 min
1622
Paisley Rekdal: "有 識: Have Knowledge"
1 min
1623
W. B. Yeats: "VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window"
1 min
1624
Dante Di Stefano: "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daught...
2 min
1625
Rae Armantrout: "On Growth"
0 min