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
2076
Diana Khoi Nguyen: "from Đổi Mới"
4 min
2077
Diane Seuss: "Ballad"
7 min
2078
Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"
2 min
2079
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
2080
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
2081
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
2082
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
2083
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
2084
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
2085
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
2086
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
2087
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
2088
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
2089
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
2090
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
2091
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
2092
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
2093
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
2094
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
2095
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
2096
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
2097
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
2098
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
2099
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
2100
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min