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
426
Lesyk Panasiuk: "A Wartime Dream," translated b...
2 min
427
George Eliot: "Self and Life"
6 min
428
Scottie McKenzie Frasier: "The Things I Love"
2 min
429
Jessica Abughattas: "Failed Poems"
3 min
430
Brenda Hillman: "1951"
4 min
431
Donna Masini: "My Father Teaches Me to Play Sol...
3 min
432
Nicole Callihan: "Summer Elegy"
4 min
433
Josh Bell: "The War Against Birthdays"
2 min
434
Louise Imogen Guiney: "Spring"
2 min
435
Sara Teasdale: "Spring Night"
3 min
436
Gary Copeland Lilley: "War"
3 min
437
Katie Condon: "The Insurance Representative Tel...
3 min
438
Chloe Honum: "Irreversible Fetal Anomalies"
2 min
439
Joseph Millar: "Job"
2 min
440
Jake Skeets: "Loom Poem"
2 min
441
Rita Dove: "Prose in a Small Space"
4 min
442
Frances Dana Barker Gage: "Woman––The Poet"
5 min
443
Danusha Laméris: "U-Pick Orchards"
2 min
444
Mosab Abu Toha: "[You were so small in my hands]"
1 min
445
Jennifer Knox: "‘How old is Maggie?’"
2 min
446
Matthew Olzmann: "Olympus"
1 min
447
Sarah Freligh: "In this Poem, We Will Not Glori...
2 min
448
Felicia Dorothea Hemans: "Hymn of Nature"
3 min
449
Phoebe Cary: "Otway"
4 min
450
Laura Read: "Love Poem with Staples"
3 min