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
176
Bob Holman: "Scotty and the Rib Tips"
4 min
177
Edwin Torres: "túmba la caña jibarito"
4 min
178
Myrna Nieves: "My Dead Relatives"
4 min
179
Urayoán Noel: "sueño convulso (seizure dream)"
5 min
180
Nancy Mercado: "2020 A Year to Forget"
2 min
181
Alberto Ríos: "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
6 min
182
Charlotte Brontë: "Winter Stores"
4 min
183
Sheila Maldonado: "herederos de cero"
3 min
184
David Henderson: "Blues Franchise"
4 min
185
Andrei Codrescu: "my yoga teacher kassandra"
2 min
186
Carlos Manuel Rivera: "Thanatos and Technophilia"
3 min
187
Sahar Romani: "Sign"
3 min
188
Alice Meynell: "West Wind in Winter"
3 min
189
Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald: "A Winter Day"
5 min
190
Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"
3 min
191
Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
192
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
193
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
194
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
195
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
196
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
197
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
198
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
199
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
200
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min