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
201
Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"
3 min
202
Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
203
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
204
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
205
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
206
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
207
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
208
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
209
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
210
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
211
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min
212
Felix Cortes: "In the Beginning, There was the ...
5 min
213
Emily Dickinson: "As if some little Arctic flower"
2 min
214
Emily Pauline Johnson: "A Cry from an Indian Wife"
6 min
215
Guest Editor Interview: December 2024 Guest Edi...
10 min
216
Lance Henson: "Untitled"
1 min
217
Luci Tapahonso: "Wooden Window Frames"
5 min
218
Elizabeth Woody: "Meetings"
3 min
219
Ofelia Zepeda: "The Home of the Sacred"
2 min
220
Max Early: "Delayza’s Necklace"
3 min
221
Charles G. Eastman: "The Yellow Corn"
3 min
222
Frances Sargent Osgood: "Thank God, I Glory in ...
4 min
223
Kimberly Blaeser: "I was built by inherited hun...
4 min
224
Annie Wenstrup: "As Girl"
3 min
225
Kenyatta Rogers: "Ars Poetica"
2 min