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
Bettina Judd: "Not My Ancestors"
3 min
1602
Ada Limón: "Lover"
3 min
1603
Juana de Ibarbourou: "Bond"
3 min
1604
Conceição Lima and David Shook: "Afroinsularity"
8 min
1605
Guest Editor Interview: October Guest Editor Sa...
15 min
1606
Ama Codjoe: "Primordial Mirror"
3 min
1607
Tonya M. Foster: from "In the After"
5 min
1608
Mary-Kim Arnold: "The Maze"
4 min
1609
Suzi F. Garcia: "A Modified Villanelle for My C...
3 min
1610
Balam Rodrigo and Dan Bellm: "The Patron Saints"
6 min
1611
Juan Ramón Jiménez: "One Night"
2 min
1612
Lauri García Dueñas and Olivia Lott: "0"
8 min
1613
John Keene: "Looking at Photos"
3 min
1614
Douglas Kearney: "The Thing of Nature That Defi...
3 min
1615
Monica Youn: "Leave"
3 min
1616
Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"
2 min
1617
Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"
2 min
1618
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1619
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1620
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min
1621
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min
1622
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1623
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1624
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1625
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min