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
Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"
3 min
177
Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
178
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
179
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
180
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
181
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
182
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
183
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
184
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
185
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
186
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min
187
Felix Cortes: "In the Beginning, There was the ...
5 min
188
Emily Dickinson: "As if some little Arctic flower"
2 min
189
Emily Pauline Johnson: "A Cry from an Indian Wife"
6 min
190
Guest Editor Interview: December 2024 Guest Edi...
10 min
191
Lance Henson: "Untitled"
1 min
192
Luci Tapahonso: "Wooden Window Frames"
5 min
193
Elizabeth Woody: "Meetings"
3 min
194
Ofelia Zepeda: "The Home of the Sacred"
2 min
195
Max Early: "Delayza’s Necklace"
3 min
196
Charles G. Eastman: "The Yellow Corn"
3 min
197
Frances Sargent Osgood: "Thank God, I Glory in ...
4 min
198
Kimberly Blaeser: "I was built by inherited hun...
4 min
199
Annie Wenstrup: "As Girl"
3 min
200
Kenyatta Rogers: "Ars Poetica"
2 min