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.
1826
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
1827
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1828
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1829
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1830
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1831
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1832
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1833
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1834
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1835
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1836
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
1837
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
1838
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
1839
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
1840
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
1841
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
1842
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
1843
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
1844
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
1845
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
1846
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
1847
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min
1848
Didi Jackson: "Bobolink"
4 min
1849
William Stanley Braithwaite: "Near the End of A...
1 min
1850
Joseph Millar: "Venetian Siesta"
3 min