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 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.

Books
1
Lory Bedikian: "My Son Rests His Cheek on the W...
3 min
2
Kai Carlson-Wee: "Blue Room"
3 min
3
Anders Carlson-Wee: "Spirits"
2 min
4
Malia Maxwell: "In the not-not-woods"
4 min
5
Arno Holz, translated by Babette Deutsch and Av...
2 min
6
Maxine Scates: "Flyway"
3 min
7
Rebecca Bornstein: "Love Poem to Taco Bell"
4 min
8
Jake Young: "Working at the Distillery"
3 min
9
Thomas Centolella: "Cynthia Wanders My Neighbor...
3 min
10
Tracey Knapp: "To the Sea"
3 min
11
Thomas Wyatt: "[The long love that in my though...
2 min
12
Louis Untermeyer: "End of the Comedy"
2 min
13
Michael Montlack: “‘I came here to be a poet …’”
3 min
14
Alison Luterman: "What the Strength Card in the...
3 min
15
Arielle Hebert: "Our Book of Delights"
4 min
16
Celeste Doaks: "Daniel’s Response to Jet, or Wh...
3 min
17
Gary Young: "[Each morning before dawn,]"
2 min
18
Raffi Joe Wartanian: "Tongue"
3 min
19
Jesse Arlen: "𓆭 [Tree]"
3 min
20
Suzanne Cleary: "Mercury"
3 min
21
Didi Jackson: "Spot"
3 min
22
William Archila: "Ginebra"
4 min
23
Susan Deer Cloud: "Waking in Deep Night to the ...
5 min
24
Kathy Evans: "Bio"
2 min
25
Hrayr Varaz: "Ladletime: Night Time"
6 min