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.
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Terrance Hayes: "Muscular Fantasy"
4 min
1777
Paul Tran: "Hypothesis"
3 min
1778
Wang Wei: "The Blue-Green Stream"
2 min
1779
Queen Liliʻuokalani: "Kumulipo"
2 min
1780
Analicia Sotelo: "Grace Among the Ferns"
3 min
1781
Joy Priest: "Looking for the Beautiful Things"
4 min
1782
Paige Lewis: "Logically, I Know the Circus"
2 min
1783
Andrés Cerpa: "The Vault"
2 min
1784
Jane Wong: "The Waiting"
3 min
1785
Yone Noguchi: "How Near to Fairyland"
2 min
1786
Jitō Tennō: "[Has Spring passed away?]"
1 min
1787
Jose Hernandez Diaz: "Almost Buried"
2 min
1788
Diana Khoi Nguyen: "from Đổi Mới"
4 min
1789
Diane Seuss: "Ballad"
7 min
1790
Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"
2 min
1791
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
1792
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1793
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1794
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1795
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1796
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1797
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1798
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1799
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1800
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min