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.
1801
Donika Kelly: "In the Beginning"
2 min
1802
Terrance Hayes: "Muscular Fantasy"
4 min
1803
Paul Tran: "Hypothesis"
3 min
1804
Wang Wei: "The Blue-Green Stream"
2 min
1805
Queen Liliʻuokalani: "Kumulipo"
2 min
1806
Analicia Sotelo: "Grace Among the Ferns"
3 min
1807
Joy Priest: "Looking for the Beautiful Things"
4 min
1808
Paige Lewis: "Logically, I Know the Circus"
2 min
1809
Andrés Cerpa: "The Vault"
2 min
1810
Jane Wong: "The Waiting"
3 min
1811
Yone Noguchi: "How Near to Fairyland"
2 min
1812
Jitō Tennō: "[Has Spring passed away?]"
1 min
1813
Jose Hernandez Diaz: "Almost Buried"
2 min
1814
Diana Khoi Nguyen: "from Đổi Mới"
4 min
1815
Diane Seuss: "Ballad"
7 min
1816
Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"
2 min
1817
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
1818
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1819
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1820
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1821
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1822
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1823
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1824
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1825
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min