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