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.
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Lawrence Joseph: "The Imagination Completes Its...
3 min
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Megan Levad Beisner: "The woman who cut and pai...
3 min
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Robert Laidler: "Jr"
3 min
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Jennifer Huang: "Gender Euphoria and the Superb...
3 min
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John Berryman: "Footing Our Cabin’s Lawn, Befor...
2 min
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Wallace Stevens: "The Plot Against the Giant"
3 min
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Richard Jackson: "A Loud Death"
5 min
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Sophia Terazawa: From "September Roams a Vertic...
3 min
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Maura Stanton: "A Night in Chicago"
3 min
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Arthur Sze: "Qinghai Lake"
3 min
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Brian Gyamfi: "The Thing Dead on the Road"
2 min
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Anonymous, translated by Frances Densmore: "My ...
2 min
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Guest Editor Interview: December 2025 Guest Edi...
18 min
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Marianne Moore: "Dock Rats"
4 min
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Nicholas Friedman: "Night Before"
2 min
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Casandra López: "Language Studies: ‘Wiishmenok ...
3 min
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Abigail Chabitnoy: "Everything Exactly as It Se...
3 min
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Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers: "Jessica McClure, Aft...
4 min
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Benjamin Garcia: "Egg Tooth"
3 min
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Samuel Alfred Beadle: "Alice"
3 min
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Anne Brontë: "Night"
3 min
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Lisa Bickmore: "flit [sparrow]"
3 min
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Kimberly Blaeser: "Postures of Devotion"
7 min
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Annie Wenstrup: "Lodestone"
4 min
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Lance Larsen: "To My Daughter's Dead Name"
3 min