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.
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Rainer Maria Rilke: “Put Out My Eyes”
2 min
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Charles Baudelaire: “Obsession”
3 min
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CM Burroughs: “One Way To Resurrect An Ancestor”
2 min
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Christian Campbell: “My Grandmother’s Love Lett...
3 min
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Kyla Marshell: “Somewhere Swimming”
2 min
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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
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Pierre Dupont: “A Serenade”
2 min
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Abe Louise Young: “Who”
2 min
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Douglas Kearney: “There’s no ‘sass’ in “dissoci...
2 min
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Chet’la Sebree: “An End”
3 min
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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: “Black Pastoral”
3 min
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Antoinette Brim-Bell: “Insomniac Tankas”
2 min
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Djuna Barnes: “I’d Have You Think of Me”
3 min
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Victor Hugo: “Truth”
7 min
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Keith S. Wilson: “there aren’t enough idioms ab...
2 min
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Andrea Rexilius: “The Way the Language Was”
2 min
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Bettina Judd: “A Poem about Home”
3 min
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DaMaris B. Hill: “Come. Pray. Know”
3 min
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Anahita Monfared: “The Manic Depressive’s Alpha...
6 min
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Guest Editor Interview: July 2025 Guest Editor ...
16 min
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Sappho: “[It was summer when I found you]”
2 min
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Lord Alfred Douglas: “Wine of Summer”
6 min
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Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers: “After a Rochester Wedding”
3 min