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 Thea Matthews. 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
Spencer Williams: "I wake at dawn to glimpse my...
2 min
427
Carl Sandburg: From “The Windy City”
4 min
428
Effie Lee Newsome: "At the Pool"
4 min
429
Golden: "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"
3 min
430
Arianna Monet: "Thinking about “The Little Merm...
2 min
431
Justice Ameer: "Necessary Conditions"
2 min
432
C. T. Salazar: "River"
3 min
433
Gaia Rajan: "Dent"
2 min
434
William Carlos Williams: "The Lonely Street"
3 min
435
T. S. Eliot: "The Hollow Men"
6 min
436
Ilyus Evander: "tempo"
2 min
437
K. Iver: "The Gotham Hotel"
3 min
438
aeon ginsberg: "anyways im radicalized now"
5 min
439
Ally Ang: "Masculinity Ode"
2 min
440
jason b crawford: "Untitled 1975–86"
3 min
441
Archibald MacLeish: "The Altar"
3 min
442
Robinson Jeffers: "The Truce and the Peace"
14 min
443
Marlin M. Jenkins: "against cleansing"
2 min
444
Nen G. Ramirez: "Love poem with a dying cat"
4 min
445
Summer Farah: "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Et...
4 min
446
Xan Forest Phillips: "no one wants to be rough ...
3 min
447
Nora Hikari: "Imago Dei"
3 min
448
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "The Seraph and Poet"
3 min
449
Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Sonnet"
3 min
450
Bradley Trumpfheller: "Loom"
2 min