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.
1726
Diane Seuss: "Ballad"
7 min
1727
Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"
2 min
1728
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
1729
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1730
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1731
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1732
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1733
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1734
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1735
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1736
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1737
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1738
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
1739
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
1740
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
1741
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
1742
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
1743
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
1744
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
1745
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
1746
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
1747
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
1748
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
1749
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min
1750
Didi Jackson: "Bobolink"
4 min