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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
1801
Diane di Prima: "Revolutionary Letter #1"
1 min
1802
Delmira Agustini: "The Vampire"
1 min
1803
Julian Talamantez Brolaski: "poetry is a tempor...
11 min
1804
Claire Meuschke: "zero in on"
2 min
1805
Diana Hamilton: "Trance Essay for Remembering I...
5 min
1806
Lynn Xu: "Untitled Fragment"
1 min
1807
Susan Briante: Excerpt from "Defacing the Monum...
3 min
1808
Kevin Killian: "Free"
1 min
1809
Kay Gabriel: "Like, Comma, Like"
1 min
1810
Daniel Borzutzky: "Written After a Massacre in ...
3 min
1811
Margaret Ross: "Evolution"
4 min
1812
Öykü Tekten: "mountain language"
1 min
1813
Aldrin Valdez: "ars poetica"
2 min
1814
Trace Howard DePass: "[th(e)reat] → siege engine"
2 min
1815
Kerry Carnahan: "[My ancestors are empty words]"
2 min
1816
Juliana Spahr: excerpts from "Will There Be Sin...
10 min
1817
Solmaz Sharif: "He, Too"
0 min
1818
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta: "[untitled]"
4 min
1819
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "Time-lapse Video Of ...
1 min
1820
C. Dale Young: "Melancholia"
3 min
1821
heidi andrea restrepo rhodes: "Flying Down the ...
4 min
1822
José Martí: "Love in the City"
4 min
1823
Louise Glück: "The Red Poppy"
1 min
1824
Javier Zamora: "Nó, Actually, Soy Salvadoreño"
4 min
1825
Oliver Baez Bendorf: "Dysphoria"
2 min