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.
1701
Toru Dutt: "Sonnet—Baugmaree"
2 min
1702
Rachel Mennies: "September 23, 2016"
4 min
1703
Luther Hughes: "When Struck by Night"
3 min
1704
Donika Kelly: "In the Beginning"
2 min
1705
Terrance Hayes: "Muscular Fantasy"
4 min
1706
Paul Tran: "Hypothesis"
3 min
1707
Wang Wei: "The Blue-Green Stream"
2 min
1708
Queen Liliʻuokalani: "Kumulipo"
2 min
1709
Analicia Sotelo: "Grace Among the Ferns"
3 min
1710
Joy Priest: "Looking for the Beautiful Things"
4 min
1711
Paige Lewis: "Logically, I Know the Circus"
2 min
1712
Andrés Cerpa: "The Vault"
2 min
1713
Jane Wong: "The Waiting"
3 min
1714
Yone Noguchi: "How Near to Fairyland"
2 min
1715
Jitō Tennō: "[Has Spring passed away?]"
1 min
1716
Jose Hernandez Diaz: "Almost Buried"
2 min
1717
Diana Khoi Nguyen: "from Đổi Mới"
4 min
1718
Diane Seuss: "Ballad"
7 min
1719
Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"
2 min
1720
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
1721
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1722
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1723
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1724
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1725
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min