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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.

Logan February: “I Woke You with Wagner,”

3 mins; June 17, 2025

Kaveh Akbar: “Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog”

3 mins; June 16, 2025

Jericho Brown: “Reunion Tour”

2 mins; June 15, 2025

John Berryman: “The Possessed”

5 mins; June 14, 2025

Wes Matthews: “Immortality”

3 mins; June 13, 2025

Jen DeGregorio: “No Isms Except Neologism”

5 mins; June 12, 2025

Fatima Malik: “Critique of My Thighs”

3 mins; June 11, 2025

Stephanie Colwell: “Livestreaming My Grandfather’s Funeral”

3 mins; June 10, 2025

Mckendy Fils-Aime: “on superstitions”

3 mins; June 09, 2025

Witter Bynner: “Beyond a Mountain”

3 mins; June 08, 2025

Vita Sackville-West: “Song: Let Us Go Back”

3 mins; June 07, 2025

Deborah Hauser: “Never Admit Your Mistakes”

3 mins; June 06, 2025

Keisha-Gaye Anderson: “We Dreamed You”

3 mins; June 05, 2025

Maya Marshall: “The Collection Room”

3 mins; June 04, 2025

Dior J. Stephens: “a letter to charlie parker”

3 mins; June 03, 2025

Ama Codjoe: “Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!”

4 mins; June 02, 2025

Mónica Gomery: “The End Is the Beginning”

4 mins; June 01, 2025

Kirun Kapur: “Rajat Jayanti”

3 mins; May 31, 2025

Guest Editor Interview: June 2025 Guest Editor Omotara James

21 mins; May 31, 2025

Yusef Komunyakaa: “Frida’s Earth Mother”

4 mins; May 30, 2025

Brandy Nālani McDougall: “returning”

4 mins; May 29, 2025

Major Jackson: “Addiction”

3 mins; May 28, 2025

Christopher Buckley: “Desire”

4 mins; May 27, 2025

Mark Jarman: “The Mermaid”

2 mins; May 26, 2025

Joy Ladin: “Forgetting”

4 mins; May 25, 2025

Pramila Venkateswaran: “Body Language”

3 mins; May 24, 2025

Julia Kolchinsky: “Naming”

5 mins; May 23, 2025

Tarfia Faizullah: “Wait Until It Grows Roots”

2 mins; May 22, 2025

Naomi Shihab Nye: “In a Village in the West Bank”

5 mins; May 21, 2025

Vievee Francis: “The Poems Repeat as Dreams as Tears”

3 mins; May 20, 2025

Robin Coste Lewis: “Cavafy in Compton/Closet Anthem Self-Portrait at 16”

5 mins; May 19, 2025

Gloria Gervitz, translated by Mark Schafer: From “Migrations”

7 mins; May 18, 2025

Varsha Saraiya-Shah: “Anthem for America”

4 mins; May 17, 2025

Edward Hirsch: “My First Bookstore”

4 mins; May 16, 2025

David St. John: “Venetian Farewells”

5 mins; May 15, 2025

T. R. Hummer: “Who Remembers Davenport”

3 mins; May 14, 2025

Nicholas Christopher: “1943”

3 mins; May 13, 2025

Sally Wen Mao: “Willow, Stop Weeping”

5 mins; May 12, 2025

Amie Whittemore: “Future History of Earth’s Birds”

3 mins; May 11, 2025

Usha Akella: “Breaking bread with phonemes”

3 mins; May 10, 2025

Amy Glynn: “For Leslie”

4 mins; May 09, 2025

David Mura: “Vegas Rave Muse”

3 mins; May 08, 2025

Lauren K. Watel: “The Last Act”

4 mins; May 07, 2025

Michael Collier: “The Globe”

3 mins; May 06, 2025

Keetje Kuipers: “10,000 Acres Burned”

3 mins; May 05, 2025

Andrew Calis: “The Sea / Is Sacred Still”

3 mins; May 04, 2025

Sophia Naz: “To Bear the Right”

3 mins; May 03, 2025

Tomás Q. Morín: “Bird”

4 mins; May 02, 2025

Jenny Xie: “Le Temps Mort”

3 mins; May 01, 2025

Karla Cordero: “As a Kid I Was Told, ‘Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back’”

4 mins; April 30, 2025

Guest Editor Interview: May 2025 Guest Editor Garrett Hongo

17 mins; April 30, 2025

Mariposa Fernández: “Verses in the Wind”

3 mins; April 29, 2025

Noel Quiñones: “Orange”

3 mins; April 28, 2025

Rachel Dillon: “A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem”

3 mins; April 27, 2025

William Wordsworth: “To the Daisy”

6 mins; April 26, 2025

Gabriel Ramirez: “Learn Your Song”

4 mins; April 25, 2025

Dimitri Reyes: “Speakers”

5 mins; April 24, 2025

Gabriel Cortez: “Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale ”

4 mins; April 23, 2025

Barbara Jane Reyes: “Downtown Oakland Poem”

3 mins; April 22, 2025

Anacaona Rocio Milagro: “Hangman Poem: One Player Puzzle”

4 mins; April 21, 2025

Fannie Isabelle Sherrick: “Easter”

3 mins; April 20, 2025

E. E. Cummings: “La Guerre (II)”

3 mins; April 19, 2025

Malcolm Friend: “Caliban Theory”

4 mins; April 18, 2025

Jacqueline Jiang: “If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me”

4 mins; April 17, 2025

jo reyes-boitel: “fish bones”

3 mins; April 16, 2025

Cynthia Dewi Oka: “American Abyss”

3 mins; April 15, 2025

David Maduli: “alameda point”

3 mins; April 14, 2025

Ibn al-Fāriḍ: “From the ‘Khamriyyah’ [There is a vineyard planted by the Lord]”

5 mins; April 13, 2025

Hatim al-Tai: “On Avarice”

4 mins; April 12, 2025

Vincent Toro: “¿Que Que La Femme?”

6 mins; April 11, 2025

Leonora Simonovis: “Little Bruja”

3 mins; April 10, 2025

Brittany Rogers: “Dressing the Body”

3 mins; April 09, 2025

Grisel Y. Acosta: “Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic”

4 mins; April 08, 2025

Yesenia Montilla: “High Stakes”

4 mins; April 07, 2025

Ed Roberson: “American Quartet”

6 mins; April 06, 2025

Katherine Mansfield: “The Earth-Child in the Grass”

3 mins; April 05, 2025

Carlos Andrés Gómez: “Ghazal Circling Fatherhood”

4 mins; April 04, 2025

Gia Anansi Shakur: “The Owl”

2 mins; April 03, 2025

Mike Tyler: “Palazzo Tartaruga”

2 mins; April 02, 2025

Cortney Lamar Charleston: “Magnitude and Bond”

4 mins; April 01, 2025

Guest Editor Interview: April 2025 Guest Editor Willie Perdomo

12 mins; March 31, 2025

Lesyk Panasiuk: "A Wartime Dream," translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

3 mins; March 31, 2025

George Eliot: "Self and Life"

7 mins; March 30, 2025

Scottie McKenzie Frasier: "The Things I Love"

3 mins; March 29, 2025

Jessica Abughattas: "Failed Poems"

4 mins; March 28, 2025

Brenda Hillman: "1951"

4 mins; March 27, 2025

Donna Masini: "My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire"

3 mins; March 26, 2025

Nicole Callihan: "Summer Elegy"

4 mins; March 25, 2025

Josh Bell: "The War Against Birthdays"

2 mins; March 24, 2025

Louise Imogen Guiney: "Spring"

3 mins; March 23, 2025

Sara Teasdale: "Spring Night"

3 mins; March 22, 2025

Gary Copeland Lilley: "War"

3 mins; March 21, 2025

Katie Condon: "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby’s Delivery Will Cost"

3 mins; March 20, 2025

Chloe Honum: "Irreversible Fetal Anomalies"

2 mins; March 19, 2025

Joseph Millar: "Job"

2 mins; March 18, 2025

Jake Skeets: "Loom Poem"

3 mins; March 17, 2025

Rita Dove: "Prose in a Small Space"

4 mins; March 16, 2025

Frances Dana Barker Gage: "Woman––The Poet"

6 mins; March 15, 2025

Danusha Laméris: "U-Pick Orchards"

3 mins; March 14, 2025

Mosab Abu Toha: "[You were so small in my hands]"

2 mins; March 13, 2025

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