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