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
Terrance Hayes: "Muscular Fantasy"
4 min
1877
Paul Tran: "Hypothesis"
3 min
1878
Wang Wei: "The Blue-Green Stream"
2 min
1879
Queen Liliʻuokalani: "Kumulipo"
2 min
1880
Analicia Sotelo: "Grace Among the Ferns"
3 min
1881
Joy Priest: "Looking for the Beautiful Things"
4 min
1882
Paige Lewis: "Logically, I Know the Circus"
2 min
1883
Andrés Cerpa: "The Vault"
2 min
1884
Jane Wong: "The Waiting"
3 min
1885
Yone Noguchi: "How Near to Fairyland"
2 min
1886
Jitō Tennō: "[Has Spring passed away?]"
1 min
1887
Jose Hernandez Diaz: "Almost Buried"
2 min
1888
Diana Khoi Nguyen: "from Đổi Mới"
4 min
1889
Diane Seuss: "Ballad"
7 min
1890
Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"
2 min
1891
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
1892
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1893
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1894
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1895
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1896
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1897
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1898
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1899
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1900
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min