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.
1876
Melanie Figg: "A Rogue Dream"
2 min
1877
LeAnne Howe: "1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed"
3 min
1878
Khaty Xiong: "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
2 min
1879
Halee Kirkwood: "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
2 min
1880
Alexander Posey: "On the Hills of Dawn"
0 min
1881
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Marshlands"
1 min
1882
Roy G. Guzmán: excerpt from "The Age of Aquarius"
4 min
1883
Michael Kleber-Diggs: "America Is Loving Me to ...
3 min
1884
Rena Priest: "The Index"
2 min
1885
James Cihlar: "The Way Words Echo in Our Heads"
1 min
1886
Margaret Noodin: "Ozaagi’aan One Open to an Other"
2 min
1887
Diane di Prima: "Revolutionary Letter #1"
1 min
1888
Delmira Agustini: "The Vampire"
1 min
1889
Julian Talamantez Brolaski: "poetry is a tempor...
11 min
1890
Claire Meuschke: "zero in on"
2 min
1891
Diana Hamilton: "Trance Essay for Remembering I...
5 min
1892
Lynn Xu: "Untitled Fragment"
1 min
1893
Susan Briante: Excerpt from "Defacing the Monum...
3 min
1894
Kevin Killian: "Free"
1 min
1895
Kay Gabriel: "Like, Comma, Like"
1 min
1896
Daniel Borzutzky: "Written After a Massacre in ...
3 min
1897
Margaret Ross: "Evolution"
4 min
1898
Öykü Tekten: "mountain language"
1 min
1899
Aldrin Valdez: "ars poetica"
2 min
1900
Trace Howard DePass: "[th(e)reat] → siege engine"
2 min