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
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
1802
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1803
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1804
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1805
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1806
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1807
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1808
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1809
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1810
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1811
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
1812
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
1813
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
1814
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
1815
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
1816
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
1817
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
1818
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
1819
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
1820
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
1821
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
1822
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min
1823
Didi Jackson: "Bobolink"
4 min
1824
William Stanley Braithwaite: "Near the End of A...
1 min
1825
Joseph Millar: "Venetian Siesta"
3 min