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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Charles Baudelaire: “Obsession”
3 min
402
CM Burroughs: “One Way To Resurrect An Ancestor”
2 min
403
Christian Campbell: “My Grandmother’s Love Lett...
3 min
404
Kyla Marshell: “Somewhere Swimming”
2 min
405
Tommye Blount: “Karl Lagerfeld’s line of beauty”
4 min
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Jzl Jmz: “Drenched in Reflection”
2 min
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Adrienne Rich: “This Evening Let’s”
4 min
408
Pierre Dupont: “A Serenade”
2 min
409
Abe Louise Young: “Who”
2 min
410
Douglas Kearney: “There’s no ‘sass’ in “dissoci...
2 min
411
Chet’la Sebree: “An End”
3 min
412
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: “Black Pastoral”
3 min
413
Antoinette Brim-Bell: “Insomniac Tankas”
2 min
414
Djuna Barnes: “I’d Have You Think of Me”
3 min
415
Victor Hugo: “Truth”
7 min
416
Keith S. Wilson: “there aren’t enough idioms ab...
2 min
417
Andrea Rexilius: “The Way the Language Was”
2 min
418
Bettina Judd: “A Poem about Home”
3 min
419
DaMaris B. Hill: “Come. Pray. Know”
3 min
420
Guest Editor Interview: July 2025 Guest Editor ...
16 min
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Anahita Monfared: “The Manic Depressive’s Alpha...
6 min
422
Sappho: “[It was summer when I found you]”
2 min
423
Lord Alfred Douglas: “Wine of Summer”
6 min
424
Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers: “After a Rochester Wedding”
3 min
425
francine j. harris: “There are inanimate things...
3 min