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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.

Sarah Audsley: "A Massive Aquarium Holding 1,500 Tropical Fish Bursts"

4 mins; November 14, 2023

SM Stubbs: "Faith"

3 mins; November 13, 2023

Alexander Posey: "The Bluebird"

3 mins; November 12, 2023

Mary Cornelia Hartshorne: "Fallen Leaves"

6 mins; November 11, 2023

Donika Kelly: "I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house."

3 mins; November 10, 2023

D. A. Powell: "The Miracle of Giving"

4 mins; November 09, 2023

Flower Conroy: "Frog"

3 mins; November 08, 2023

Donna Spruijt-Metz: "Hoof"

3 mins; November 07, 2023

Amy Beeder: "My Poisonous Cousin the Pipevine Swallowtail"

3 mins; November 06, 2023

Lynn Riggs: "The Arid Land"

2 mins; November 05, 2023

Winnie Lewis Gravitt: "Sippokni Sia"

5 mins; November 04, 2023

Randall Mann: "Cold War"

3 mins; November 03, 2023

Patrick Phillips: "Galleria Ode"

3 mins; November 02, 2023

Katie Ford: "Injury Room"

3 mins; November 01, 2023

Guest Editor Interview: November Guest Editor Steve Bellin-Oka

17 mins; October 31, 2023

Alexis Aceves Garcia: "The Opposite of Abandonment"

4 mins; October 31, 2023

Cristina Rivera Garza: "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49 am"

5 mins; October 30, 2023

E. E. Cummings: "Chansons Innocentes II"

4 mins; October 29, 2023

Robert Frost: "In a Disused Graveyard"

3 mins; October 28, 2023

Sarah Ghazal Ali: "Matrilineage (umbilicus)"

3 mins; October 27, 2023

Maritza N. Estrada: "Audience"

6 mins; October 26, 2023

Moncho Alvarado: "An Erasure of Senate Bill 1698 (2)"

3 mins; October 25, 2023

Ruth Ellen Kocher: "Grow"

4 mins; October 24, 2023

Paul Hlava Ceballos: "ER S/P GSW"

3 mins; October 23, 2023

Angelina Weld Grimké: "Tenebris"

4 mins; October 22, 2023

W. B. Yeats: "The Host of the Air"

4 mins; October 21, 2023

J. Estanislao Lopez: "The Systemic"

3 mins; October 20, 2023

Jonah Mixon-Webster: "Territory"

4 mins; October 19, 2023

Emily Lee Luan: "The warble of melting snow is the river"

4 mins; October 18, 2023

Vickie Vértiz: "Under the Spell of Conjunto"

4 mins; October 17, 2023

Adam J. Gellings: "Somewhere Else"

3 mins; October 16, 2023

Djuna Barnes: "She Passed This Way"

4 mins; October 15, 2023

Robert Graves: "Children of Darkness"

3 mins; October 14, 2023

Megan Fernandes: "Friends with No Benefits"

4 mins; October 13, 2023

Chaun Webster: "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"

5 mins; October 12, 2023

Jos Charles: "A Sonnet"

3 mins; October 11, 2023

Cass Donish: "You, Emblazoned"

5 mins; October 10, 2023

Sara Borjas: "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"

3 mins; October 09, 2023

Elinor Wylie: "Let No Charitable Hope"

3 mins; October 08, 2023

Wallace Stevens: "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"

4 mins; October 07, 2023

Aracelis Girmay: "[to keep knowing]"

3 mins; October 06, 2023

Jasminne Mendez: "Luke and the Frog: An American Fairytale OR What It Feels Like to Be a Parent in America"

3 mins; October 05, 2023

Giovannai Rosa: "a force is a push or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america)"

4 mins; October 04, 2023

Janel Pineda: "Mujer Malvada"

3 mins; October 03, 2023

Khadijah Queen: "Season of Grief"

3 mins; October 02, 2023

Rubén Darío: "Autumnal"

7 mins; October 01, 2023

Guest Editor Interview: October 2023 Guest Editor Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

11 mins; September 30, 2023

Naja Marie Aidt: from "Everything Shimmers"

4 mins; September 30, 2023

Kitty Tsui: "Without Love"

4 mins; September 29, 2023

Genji Amino: from "n e a r"

4 mins; September 28, 2023

Alberto Ríos: "To Mars from Arizona"

4 mins; September 27, 2023

Nellie Wong: "Being pregnant is a dream"

4 mins; September 26, 2023

Safiya Sinclair: "Planet Dread"

6 mins; September 25, 2023

José Santos Chocano: "The Orchids"

4 mins; September 24, 2023

Xavier Valcárcel: "Doppelgänger"

3 mins; September 23, 2023

Aria Aber: "Oakland in Rain"

4 mins; September 22, 2023

Santee Frazier: "Fugal"

3 mins; September 21, 2023

Catherine Chen: "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left"

4 mins; September 20, 2023

Canisia Lubrin: from "The World After Rain"

4 mins; September 19, 2023

Aaron Boothby: "Jurupa Hills / Riverside"

3 mins; September 18, 2023

Amado Nervo: "To Leonora"

4 mins; September 17, 2023

Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles: "Juggler"

3 mins; September 16, 2023

Samiya Bashir: "Some days of wine and pastry"

7 mins; September 15, 2023

Wendy Xu: "Notes on Sentence Crossing"

4 mins; September 14, 2023

Mona Kareem: "Masters and Lovers"

3 mins; September 13, 2023

S*an D. Henry Smith: "us girls"

4 mins; September 12, 2023

Maryam Ivette Parhizkar: "Women of the 1980s"

4 mins; September 11, 2023

Salomón de la Selva: "Tropical Town"

4 mins; September 10, 2023

Iryna Shuvalova: "a moving grove"

5 mins; September 09, 2023

Carmen Giménez: "Ode to People Who Hate Me"

3 mins; September 08, 2023

Felicia Zamora: "Inner"

5 mins; September 07, 2023

Joan Naviyuk Kane: "After Anchorage IV"

3 mins; September 06, 2023

Ching-In Chen: "Breath for Metal"

5 mins; September 05, 2023

Natalie Shapero: "Long Week Talking"

3 mins; September 04, 2023

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: "The Palace-Burner"

6 mins; September 03, 2023

Edgar Guest: "Home"

4 mins; September 02, 2023

Willyce Kim: "Places"

3 mins; September 01, 2023

Guest Editor Interview: September 2023 Guest Editor Eunsong Kim

17 mins; September 01, 2023

M. NourbeSe Philip: "frigates that take us lands away"

4 mins; August 31, 2023

Julie Ezelle-Patton: [Aeons quest eye on]

4 mins; August 30, 2023

Prageeta Sharma: "Lateral Violence"

5 mins; August 29, 2023

Julia Bloch: "Valley Oak"

3 mins; August 28, 2023

Marianne Moore: "Black Earth"

6 mins; August 27, 2023

Maxwell Bodenheim: "Old Age"

3 mins; August 26, 2023

Anne Carson: "Short Talk on Pain"

3 mins; August 25, 2023

Lauren Russell: "Exposition"

4 mins; August 24, 2023

Gabrielle Civil: "Three of Cups"

4 mins; August 23, 2023

Hannah Ensor: "Agnes, a sleep"

4 mins; August 22, 2023

Jennifer Scappettone: "Syrinx Spring"

5 mins; August 21, 2023

Beatrice Ravenel: "The Humming-Bird"

4 mins; August 20, 2023

Edgar Lee Masters: "Theodore the Poet"

3 mins; August 19, 2023

Douglas Kearney: "Minotaur"

3 mins; August 18, 2023

Carlos Soto-Román: "The Tell-Tale Heart"

3 mins; August 17, 2023

Serena Chopra: "Garden Variety with Lesbians"

7 mins; August 16, 2023

Shivram Gopinath: "Pottu / Dot"

3 mins; August 15, 2023

Robin Silbergleid: "Ode to Donor Gametes"

4 mins; August 14, 2023

Gwendolyn Bennett: "Moon Tonight"

3 mins; August 13, 2023

Charles Reznikoff: "Rhythms (Section I)"

4 mins; August 12, 2023

Andrea Abi Karam: "Standing Dead"

2 mins; August 11, 2023

Snigdha Koirala: "Fragments on Naturalization"

2 mins; August 10, 2023

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