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