Podcast

Poem-a-Day

Author: The Academy of American Poets
Feed episode count: 2399
Official site: https://poets.org/
RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/poem-a-day
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Summary

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.

Episodes

Jul 22, 2026 · not_requested

Dare Williams: “Zero Hour”

Duration seconds: 231
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS3980636941.mp3

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Jul 21, 2026 · not_requested

Elvira Hernández, translated by Thomas Rothe: “Cross-Armed”

Duration seconds: 291
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS9324674014.mp3

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Jul 20, 2026 · not_requested

Meg Day: “32-inch Aubade with Captions”

Duration seconds: 273
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS2201514090.mp3

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Jul 19, 2026 · not_requested

Aldous Huxley: “The Merry-Go-Round”

Duration seconds: 293
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS1036911467.mp3

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Jul 18, 2026 · not_requested

Leonora Speyer: “Deep Sea Fishing”

Duration seconds: 191
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS1619290963.mp3

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Jul 17, 2026 · not_requested

Wo Chan: “Roller Coaster, Lightning Storm”

Duration seconds: 190
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS6173126149.mp3

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Jul 16, 2026 · not_requested

Diana Bellessi, translated by Leo Boix: “I Have Built a Garden …”

Duration seconds: 647
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS9504673860.mp3

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Jul 15, 2026 · not_requested

Luis Chaves, translated by Julia Guez: “The Bricklayer”

Duration seconds: 333
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS9176730248.mp3

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Jul 14, 2026 · not_requested

Nicole Cecilia Delgado, translated by Carina del Valle Schorske: “Septihambre”

Duration seconds: 391
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS9448134960.mp3

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Jul 13, 2026 · not_requested

Hajjar Baban: “LOW FLYING PLANES” [From metal and yellow underneath the tire]

Duration seconds: 204
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS1010510141.mp3

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Jul 12, 2026 · not_requested

George Gordon Byron: “Song for the Luddites”

Duration seconds: 226
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS1957574302.mp3

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Jul 11, 2026 · not_requested

H. J. Massingham: “To Don Quixote”

Duration seconds: 196
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS4651967274.mp3

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Jul 10, 2026 · not_requested

Margaret Rhee: “LETTER VII: Remember to Breathe”

Duration seconds: 222
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS3851601287.mp3

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Jul 9, 2026 · not_requested

Lucas de Lima: “[earth & blood & mining dam-burst.]”

Duration seconds: 200
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS9642231535.mp3

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Jul 8, 2026 · not_requested

Yesenia Montilla: “Contemplations While Holding Sunchokes During a Blizzard”

Duration seconds: 261
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS9683525493.mp3

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Jul 7, 2026 · not_requested

Samuel Ace: “On the far side of pleasure”

Duration seconds: 205
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS3043985242.mp3

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Jul 6, 2026 · not_requested

Circe Maia, translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval: “I Didn’t Know”

Duration seconds: 195
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS2720513573.mp3

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Jul 5, 2026 · not_requested

D. H. Lawrence: “The Mosquito Knows”

Duration seconds: 151
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS1520850566.mp3

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Jul 4, 2026 · not_requested

Robert Penn Warren: “Prophecy”

Duration seconds: 207
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS6295681555.mp3

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Jul 3, 2026 · not_requested

S. Brook Corfman: “Lake Michigan II”

Duration seconds: 239
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS7612514204.mp3

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Jul 2, 2026 · not_requested

Janel Pineda: “How to Take a Life”

Duration seconds: 251
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS2889672492.mp3

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Jul 1, 2026 · not_requested

Wingston González, translated by Urayoán Noel: From “traslaciones” [to sell the wasteland teeming with ghosts]

Duration seconds: 348
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS6179272843.mp3

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Jun 30, 2026 · not_requested

Fatimah Asghar: “[i love them still]”

Duration seconds: 231
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS1693463754.mp3

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Jun 30, 2026 · not_requested

Guest Editor Interview: July 2026 Guest Editor Oliver Baez Bendorf

Duration seconds: 917
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS4038304789.mp3

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Jun 29, 2026 · not_requested

Angel Nafis: “I Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer”

Duration seconds: 262
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS5713193486.mp3

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Jun 28, 2026 · not_requested

Robert Graves: “1915”

Duration seconds: 219
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS2529790874.mp3

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Jun 27, 2026 · not_requested

Ezra Pound: “Meditatio”

Duration seconds: 181
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS4551158721.mp3

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Jun 26, 2026 · not_requested

D’mani Thomas: “for goldfish that remember seaworld”

Duration seconds: 238
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS6778903277.mp3

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Jun 25, 2026 · not_requested

Jos Charles: “A Song” [I was want]

Duration seconds: 218
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS2292302093.mp3

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Jun 24, 2026 · not_requested

Rachel McKibbens: “Deluxe Mourning Package”

Duration seconds: 297
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS1993353575.mp3

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Jun 23, 2026 · not_requested

Isa Borgeson: “[last summer I folded my dresses into storage]”

Duration seconds: 260
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS9172992871.mp3

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Jun 22, 2026 · not_requested

Travis Tate: “Summer City”

Duration seconds: 209
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS6057268216.mp3

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Jun 21, 2026 · not_requested

Edward Powys Mathers: “Six Love Songs”

Duration seconds: 330
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS7342706032.mp3

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Jun 20, 2026 · not_requested

Mona Van Duyn: “The Talker”

Duration seconds: 155
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS2870097031.mp3

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Jun 19, 2026 · not_requested

Ariana Brown: “The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly”

Duration seconds: 283
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS5012601109.mp3

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Jun 18, 2026 · not_requested

Shira Erlichman: “I Was Born Again the First Time I Lost Time Watching a Woman”

Duration seconds: 331
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS7120514098.mp3

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Jun 17, 2026 · not_requested

Kamelya Omayma Youssef: “My earth which is mine will always make more of itself”

Duration seconds: 248
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS4770946288.mp3

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Jun 16, 2026 · not_requested

Moncho Alvarado: “An Erasure of Senate Bill 111”

Duration seconds: 232
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS4375627362.mp3

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Jun 15, 2026 · not_requested

Jimin Seo: “In Memoriam [±That after all this I have still chosen life.]”

Duration seconds: 317
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS5310740960.mp3

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Jun 14, 2026 · not_requested

Mina Loy: “Gertrude Stein”

Duration seconds: 169
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS1262378411.mp3

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Jun 13, 2026 · not_requested

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “St. Telemachus”

Duration seconds: 491
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS7684739415.mp3

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Jun 12, 2026 · not_requested

Eva Candelaria Sosa: “Afterwards”

Duration seconds: 184
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS8692556532.mp3

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Jun 11, 2026 · not_requested

Lan Lesmeister: “Lube, Ars Poetica”

Duration seconds: 215
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS1881581285.mp3

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Jun 10, 2026 · not_requested

Janani Balasubramanian: “Quiet”

Duration seconds: 253
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS6637393806.mp3

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Jun 9, 2026 · not_requested

Andrea Lawlor: “Position Paper #53: National Archivist”

Duration seconds: 208
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS9919123417.mp3

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Jun 8, 2026 · not_requested

Billy-Ray Belcourt: “Bildungssonnet”

Duration seconds: 204
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS7553311035.mp3

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Jun 7, 2026 · not_requested

Erasmus Darwin: From “The Temple of Nature,” Canto I (The Production of Life) [III. Now rose in purple pomp the breezy dawn,]

Duration seconds: 393
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS2907574762.mp3

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Jun 6, 2026 · not_requested

Tao Yuanming, translated by Arthur Waley: “[A long time ago]”

Duration seconds: 183
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS1951905194.mp3

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Jun 5, 2026 · not_requested

Danez Smith: “Do You Know What Today Is?”

Duration seconds: 257
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS4704793064.mp3

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Jun 4, 2026 · not_requested

William Ward Butler: “Fidelity”

Duration seconds: 261
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS3544304836.mp3

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Jun 3, 2026 · not_requested

Alexis N. Garcia: “Alexa for Seniors in Easy Steps”

Duration seconds: 222
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS3718064776.mp3

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Jun 2, 2026 · not_requested

Muriel Leung: “At the end of the world, you tell me about the bees”

Duration seconds: 257
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS2632801322.mp3

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Jun 1, 2026 · not_requested

Kyle Carrero Lopez: “Statement of Purpose”

Duration seconds: 257
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS3758858526.mp3

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May 31, 2026 · not_requested

Allen Tate: “Mr. Pope”

Duration seconds: 242
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS6073483324.mp3

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May 31, 2026 · not_requested

Guest Editor Interview: June 2026 Guest Editor Sam Sax

Duration seconds: 847
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS1607000324.mp3

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May 30, 2026 · not_requested

Kashiana Singh: “Bone by Bone: A Hypochondriac Inventory”

Duration seconds: 267
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS8047883442.mp3

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May 29, 2026 · not_requested

Sarah Ghazal Ali: “Künstlerroman”

Duration seconds: 243
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS2469672889.mp3

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May 28, 2026 · not_requested

Safia Elhillo: “Abecedarian Beginning with Alif”

Duration seconds: 291
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS9705525882.mp3

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May 27, 2026 · not_requested

Megan Fernandes: “Every Person Is an Address, Every Person Is a Calendar”

Duration seconds: 306
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS6729236476.mp3

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May 26, 2026 · not_requested

Sara Deniz Akant: "War Poem"

Duration seconds: 310
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS2778961695.mp3

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May 25, 2026 · not_requested

Kiran Bath: "Nayika at the crawfish boil"

Duration seconds: 304
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS9748984568.mp3

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May 24, 2026 · not_requested

John Masefield: "On Growing Old"

Duration seconds: 280
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS3309989609.mp3

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May 23, 2026 · not_requested

Ravi Shankar: "Final Stop"

Duration seconds: 274
Source: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POETS8309612867.mp3

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