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.
1851
Terrance Hayes: "Muscular Fantasy"
4 min
1852
Paul Tran: "Hypothesis"
3 min
1853
Wang Wei: "The Blue-Green Stream"
2 min
1854
Queen Liliʻuokalani: "Kumulipo"
2 min
1855
Analicia Sotelo: "Grace Among the Ferns"
3 min
1856
Joy Priest: "Looking for the Beautiful Things"
4 min
1857
Paige Lewis: "Logically, I Know the Circus"
2 min
1858
Andrés Cerpa: "The Vault"
2 min
1859
Jane Wong: "The Waiting"
3 min
1860
Yone Noguchi: "How Near to Fairyland"
2 min
1861
Jitō Tennō: "[Has Spring passed away?]"
1 min
1862
Jose Hernandez Diaz: "Almost Buried"
2 min
1863
Diana Khoi Nguyen: "from Đổi Mới"
4 min
1864
Diane Seuss: "Ballad"
7 min
1865
Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"
2 min
1866
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
1867
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1868
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1869
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1870
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1871
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1872
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1873
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1874
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1875
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min