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
Diana Khoi Nguyen: "from Đổi Mới"
4 min
1877
Diane Seuss: "Ballad"
7 min
1878
Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"
2 min
1879
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
1880
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1881
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1882
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1883
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1884
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1885
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1886
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1887
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1888
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1889
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
1890
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
1891
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
1892
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
1893
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
1894
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
1895
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
1896
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
1897
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
1898
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
1899
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
1900
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min