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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
1876
Diane di Prima: "Revolutionary Letter #1"
1 min
1877
Delmira Agustini: "The Vampire"
1 min
1878
Julian Talamantez Brolaski: "poetry is a tempor...
11 min
1879
Claire Meuschke: "zero in on"
2 min
1880
Diana Hamilton: "Trance Essay for Remembering I...
5 min
1881
Lynn Xu: "Untitled Fragment"
1 min
1882
Susan Briante: Excerpt from "Defacing the Monum...
3 min
1883
Kevin Killian: "Free"
1 min
1884
Kay Gabriel: "Like, Comma, Like"
1 min
1885
Daniel Borzutzky: "Written After a Massacre in ...
3 min
1886
Margaret Ross: "Evolution"
4 min
1887
Öykü Tekten: "mountain language"
1 min
1888
Aldrin Valdez: "ars poetica"
2 min
1889
Trace Howard DePass: "[th(e)reat] → siege engine"
2 min
1890
Kerry Carnahan: "[My ancestors are empty words]"
2 min
1891
Juliana Spahr: excerpts from "Will There Be Sin...
10 min
1892
Solmaz Sharif: "He, Too"
0 min
1893
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta: "[untitled]"
4 min
1894
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "Time-lapse Video Of ...
1 min
1895
C. Dale Young: "Melancholia"
3 min
1896
heidi andrea restrepo rhodes: "Flying Down the ...
4 min
1897
José Martí: "Love in the City"
4 min
1898
Louise Glück: "The Red Poppy"
1 min
1899
Javier Zamora: "Nó, Actually, Soy Salvadoreño"
4 min
1900
Oliver Baez Bendorf: "Dysphoria"
2 min