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.

Books
2026
Aimee Suzara: "Amphibious"
3 min
2027
Melanie Figg: "A Rogue Dream"
2 min
2028
LeAnne Howe: "1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed"
3 min
2029
Khaty Xiong: "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
2 min
2030
Halee Kirkwood: "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
2 min
2031
Alexander Posey: "On the Hills of Dawn"
0 min
2032
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Marshlands"
1 min
2033
Roy G. Guzmán: excerpt from "The Age of Aquarius"
4 min
2034
Michael Kleber-Diggs: "America Is Loving Me to ...
3 min
2035
Rena Priest: "The Index"
2 min
2036
James Cihlar: "The Way Words Echo in Our Heads"
1 min
2037
Margaret Noodin: "Ozaagi’aan One Open to an Other"
2 min
2038
Diane di Prima: "Revolutionary Letter #1"
1 min
2039
Delmira Agustini: "The Vampire"
1 min
2040
Julian Talamantez Brolaski: "poetry is a tempor...
11 min
2041
Claire Meuschke: "zero in on"
2 min
2042
Diana Hamilton: "Trance Essay for Remembering I...
5 min
2043
Lynn Xu: "Untitled Fragment"
1 min
2044
Susan Briante: Excerpt from "Defacing the Monum...
3 min
2045
Kevin Killian: "Free"
1 min
2046
Kay Gabriel: "Like, Comma, Like"
1 min
2047
Daniel Borzutzky: "Written After a Massacre in ...
3 min
2048
Margaret Ross: "Evolution"
4 min
2049
Öykü Tekten: "mountain language"
1 min
2050
Aldrin Valdez: "ars poetica"
2 min