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
2101
LeAnne Howe: "1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed"
3 min
2102
Khaty Xiong: "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
2 min
2103
Halee Kirkwood: "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
2 min
2104
Alexander Posey: "On the Hills of Dawn"
0 min
2105
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Marshlands"
1 min
2106
Roy G. Guzmán: excerpt from "The Age of Aquarius"
4 min
2107
Michael Kleber-Diggs: "America Is Loving Me to ...
3 min
2108
Rena Priest: "The Index"
2 min
2109
James Cihlar: "The Way Words Echo in Our Heads"
1 min
2110
Margaret Noodin: "Ozaagi’aan One Open to an Other"
2 min
2111
Diane di Prima: "Revolutionary Letter #1"
1 min
2112
Delmira Agustini: "The Vampire"
1 min
2113
Julian Talamantez Brolaski: "poetry is a tempor...
11 min
2114
Claire Meuschke: "zero in on"
2 min
2115
Diana Hamilton: "Trance Essay for Remembering I...
5 min
2116
Lynn Xu: "Untitled Fragment"
1 min
2117
Susan Briante: Excerpt from "Defacing the Monum...
3 min
2118
Kevin Killian: "Free"
1 min
2119
Kay Gabriel: "Like, Comma, Like"
1 min
2120
Daniel Borzutzky: "Written After a Massacre in ...
3 min
2121
Margaret Ross: "Evolution"
4 min
2122
Öykü Tekten: "mountain language"
1 min
2123
Aldrin Valdez: "ars poetica"
2 min
2124
Trace Howard DePass: "[th(e)reat] → siege engine"
2 min
2125
Kerry Carnahan: "[My ancestors are empty words]"
2 min