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
1851
Aimee Suzara: "Amphibious"
3 min
1852
Melanie Figg: "A Rogue Dream"
2 min
1853
LeAnne Howe: "1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed"
3 min
1854
Khaty Xiong: "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
2 min
1855
Halee Kirkwood: "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
2 min
1856
Alexander Posey: "On the Hills of Dawn"
0 min
1857
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Marshlands"
1 min
1858
Roy G. Guzmán: excerpt from "The Age of Aquarius"
4 min
1859
Michael Kleber-Diggs: "America Is Loving Me to ...
3 min
1860
Rena Priest: "The Index"
2 min
1861
James Cihlar: "The Way Words Echo in Our Heads"
1 min
1862
Margaret Noodin: "Ozaagi’aan One Open to an Other"
2 min
1863
Diane di Prima: "Revolutionary Letter #1"
1 min
1864
Delmira Agustini: "The Vampire"
1 min
1865
Julian Talamantez Brolaski: "poetry is a tempor...
11 min
1866
Claire Meuschke: "zero in on"
2 min
1867
Diana Hamilton: "Trance Essay for Remembering I...
5 min
1868
Lynn Xu: "Untitled Fragment"
1 min
1869
Susan Briante: Excerpt from "Defacing the Monum...
3 min
1870
Kevin Killian: "Free"
1 min
1871
Kay Gabriel: "Like, Comma, Like"
1 min
1872
Daniel Borzutzky: "Written After a Massacre in ...
3 min
1873
Margaret Ross: "Evolution"
4 min
1874
Öykü Tekten: "mountain language"
1 min
1875
Aldrin Valdez: "ars poetica"
2 min