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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Cortney Lamar Charleston: “Magnitude and Bond”
4 min
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Lesyk Panasiuk: "A Wartime Dream," translated b...
2 min
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Guest Editor Interview: April 2025 Guest Editor...
11 min
279
George Eliot: "Self and Life"
6 min
280
Scottie McKenzie Frasier: "The Things I Love"
2 min
281
Jessica Abughattas: "Failed Poems"
3 min
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Brenda Hillman: "1951"
4 min
283
Donna Masini: "My Father Teaches Me to Play Sol...
3 min
284
Nicole Callihan: "Summer Elegy"
4 min
285
Josh Bell: "The War Against Birthdays"
2 min
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Louise Imogen Guiney: "Spring"
2 min
287
Sara Teasdale: "Spring Night"
3 min
288
Gary Copeland Lilley: "War"
3 min
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Katie Condon: "The Insurance Representative Tel...
3 min
290
Chloe Honum: "Irreversible Fetal Anomalies"
2 min
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Joseph Millar: "Job"
2 min
292
Jake Skeets: "Loom Poem"
2 min
293
Rita Dove: "Prose in a Small Space"
4 min
294
Frances Dana Barker Gage: "Woman––The Poet"
5 min
295
Danusha Laméris: "U-Pick Orchards"
2 min
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Mosab Abu Toha: "[You were so small in my hands]"
1 min
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Jennifer Knox: "‘How old is Maggie?’"
2 min
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Matthew Olzmann: "Olympus"
1 min
299
Sarah Freligh: "In this Poem, We Will Not Glori...
2 min
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Felicia Dorothea Hemans: "Hymn of Nature"
3 min