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
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
1852
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1853
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1854
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1855
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1856
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1857
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1858
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1859
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1860
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1861
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
1862
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
1863
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
1864
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
1865
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
1866
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
1867
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
1868
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
1869
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
1870
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
1871
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
1872
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min
1873
Didi Jackson: "Bobolink"
4 min
1874
William Stanley Braithwaite: "Near the End of A...
1 min
1875
Joseph Millar: "Venetian Siesta"
3 min