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
Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"
2 min
1877
Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"
2 min
1878
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1879
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1880
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min
1881
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min
1882
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1883
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1884
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1885
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1886
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1887
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1888
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1889
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1890
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1891
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1892
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1893
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1894
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1895
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1896
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1897
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1898
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1899
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1900
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min