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.
1901
Diana Khoi Nguyen: "from Đổi Mới"
4 min
1902
Diane Seuss: "Ballad"
7 min
1903
Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"
2 min
1904
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
1905
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1906
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1907
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1908
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1909
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1910
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1911
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1912
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1913
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1914
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
1915
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
1916
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
1917
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
1918
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
1919
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
1920
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
1921
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
1922
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
1923
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
1924
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
1925
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min