Poem-a-Day
1,577 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 64 ratingsPoem-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.
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Episodes
Cherise Pollard: "Nodes of Growth"
February 09, 2024 07:00 - 4 minutesRecorded by Cherise Pollard for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 9, 2024. www.poets.org
Anthony Walton: "Alzheimer’s"
February 08, 2024 07:00 - 4 minutesRecorded by Anthony Walton for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 8, 2024. www.poets.org
Kwoya Fagin Maples: "Invisible Work"
February 07, 2024 07:00 - 4 minutesRecorded by Kwoya Fagin Maples for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 7, 2024. www.poets.org
Eve L. Ewing: "eschatology"
February 06, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Eve L. Ewing for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 6, 2024. www.poets.org
A. Van Jordan: "'Integrated School Books' Arpeggio"
February 05, 2024 07:00 - 4 minutesRecorded by A. Van Jordan for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 5, 2024. www.poets.org
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Stars in Alabama"
February 04, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 4, 2024. www.poets.org
Langston Hughes: "Sport"
February 03, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 3, 2024. www.poets.org
Brad Walrond: "Calculus I, II, III"
February 02, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Brad Walrond for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 2, 2024. www.poets.org
Balo Salo: "Counsel to a Bridegroom"
February 01, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 1, 2024. www.poets.org
Guest Editor Interview: February 2024 Guest Editor Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
January 31, 2024 07:00 - 17 minutesRecorded by Mary Sutton and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 31, 2024. www.poets.org
Jay Wright: "[Song into holiness]"
January 31, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Dante Micheaux for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 31, 2024. www.poets.org
Mahogany L. Browne: "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
January 30, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutesRecorded by Mahogany L. Browne for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 30, 2024. www.poets.org
Melissa Range: "First South"
January 29, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutesRecorded by Melissa Range for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 29, 2024. www.poets.org
H. D.: "Projector"
January 28, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 28, 2024. www.poets.org
John Donne: "Love's Growth"
January 27, 2024 07:00 - 4 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 27, 2024. www.poets.org
Ishion Hutchinson: "Club Paradise"
January 26, 2024 07:00 - 8 minutesRecorded by Ishion Hutchinson for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 26, 2024. www.poets.org
Valzhyna Mort: "In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks"
January 25, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Valzhyna Mort for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 25, 2024. www.poets.org
Jordan Kapono Nakamura: "Interview"
January 24, 2024 07:00 - 4 minutesRecorded by Jordan Kapono Nakamura for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 24, 2024. www.poets.org
Myronn Hardy: "To the Air"
January 23, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Myronn Hardy for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 23, 2024. www.poets.org
Colleen J. McElroy: "The Lost Breath of Trees"
January 22, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutesRecorded by Amanda Johnston and Dante Micheaux for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 22, 2024. www.poets.org
Laura Riding Jackson: "The Quids"
January 21, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 21, 2024. www.poets.org
Francis Thompson: "To a Snowflake"
January 20, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 20, 2024. www.poets.org
Mutsuo Takahashi: "Dead Boy"
January 19, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutesRecorded by Mutsuo Takahashi and Jeffrey Angles for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 19, 2024. www.poets.org
Marilyn Hacker: "Montpeyroux Sonnets"
January 18, 2024 07:00 - 8 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 18, 2024. www.poets.org
Jason Allen-Paisant: "And You . . ."
January 17, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Jason Allen-Paisant for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 17, 2024. www.poets.org
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Phragmites"
January 16, 2024 07:00 - 4 minutesRecorded by Kyle Carrero Lopez for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 16, 2024. www.poets.org
Rickey Laurentiis: "Hermaphrodite"
January 15, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Rickey Laurentiis for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 15, 2024. www.poets.org
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "The Habit of Perfection"
January 14, 2024 07:00 - 4 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 14, 2024. www.poets.org
Sir Geoffrey Hill: "Genius Loci"
January 13, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutesRecorded by Dante Micheaux for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 13, 2024. www.poets.org
Vievee Francis: "Clarity"
January 12, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Vievee Francis for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 12, 2024. www.poets.org
Gregory Pardlo: "Giornata 4"
January 11, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Gregory Pardlo for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 11, 2024. www.poets.org
Tyree Daye: "The Lord's Corner"
January 10, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Tyree Daye for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on November 10, 2024. www.poets.org
R. A. Villanueva: "This dark is the same dark as when you close"
January 09, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by R. A. Villanueva for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 9, 2024. www.poets.org
Margo Berdeshevsky: "Somewhere Everywhere"
January 08, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutesRecorded by Margo Berdeshevsky for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 8, 2024. www.poets.org
Vita Sackville-West: From "'The Land' [Shepherds and stars are quiet with the hills]"
January 07, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 7, 2024. www.poets.org
A. A. Milne: "Furry Bear"
January 06, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 6, 2024. www.poets.org
Malika Booker: "Jesus in the Wilderness"
January 05, 2024 07:00 - 6 minutesRecorded by Malika Booker for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 5, 2024. www.poets.org
Marie-Ovide Dorcely: "Sojourner"
January 04, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Marie-Ovide Dorcely for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 4, 2024. www.poets.org
Richard Scott: "Peridot"
January 03, 2024 07:00 - 4 minutesRecorded by Richard Scott for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 3, 2024. www.poets.org
Amanda Johnston: "Bogeymen"
January 02, 2024 07:00 - 2 minutesRecorded by Amanda Johnston for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 2, 2024. www.poets.org
Adam Wiedewitsch: "If Night You Were a City"
January 01, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutesRecorded by Adam Wiedewitsch for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 1, 2024. www.poets.org
Emily Dickinson: "One Year ago—jots what? (296)"
December 31, 2023 07:00 - 4 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 31, 2023. www.poets.org
Wilfred Owen: "Winter Song"
December 30, 2023 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 30, 2023. www.poets.org
Guest Editor Interview: January 2024 Guest Editor Dante Micheaux
December 30, 2023 06:00 - 15 minutesRecorded by Mary Sutton and Dante Micheaux for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 31, 2023. www.poets.org
Cal Bedient: "Expulsion"
December 29, 2023 07:00 - 4 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 29, 2023. www.poets.org
Harryette Mullen: "Weathering Hate"
December 28, 2023 07:00 - 4 minutesRecorded by Harryette Mullen for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 28, 2023. www.poets.org
Lynn Xu: "[Sun-messenger]"
December 27, 2023 07:00 - 2 minutesRecorded by Lynn Xu for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 27, 2023. www.poets.org
Brenda Hillman: "Porcelain Musician in a Child’s Bedroom"
December 26, 2023 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Brenda Hillman for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 26, 2023. www.poets.org
Timothy Donnelly: "Habitable Nebula"
December 25, 2023 07:00 - 3 minutesRecorded by Timothy Donnelly for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 25, 2023. www.poets.org
T. S. Eliot: "Journey of the Magi"
December 24, 2023 07:00 - 5 minutesRecorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 24, 2023. www.poets.org