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
526
Effie Lee Newsome: "At the Pool"
4 min
527
Golden: "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"
3 min
528
Arianna Monet: "Thinking about “The Little Merm...
2 min
529
Justice Ameer: "Necessary Conditions"
2 min
530
C. T. Salazar: "River"
3 min
531
Gaia Rajan: "Dent"
2 min
532
William Carlos Williams: "The Lonely Street"
3 min
533
T. S. Eliot: "The Hollow Men"
6 min
534
Ilyus Evander: "tempo"
2 min
535
K. Iver: "The Gotham Hotel"
3 min
536
aeon ginsberg: "anyways im radicalized now"
5 min
537
Ally Ang: "Masculinity Ode"
2 min
538
jason b crawford: "Untitled 1975–86"
3 min
539
Archibald MacLeish: "The Altar"
3 min
540
Robinson Jeffers: "The Truce and the Peace"
14 min
541
Marlin M. Jenkins: "against cleansing"
2 min
542
Nen G. Ramirez: "Love poem with a dying cat"
4 min
543
Summer Farah: "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Et...
4 min
544
Xan Forest Phillips: "no one wants to be rough ...
3 min
545
Nora Hikari: "Imago Dei"
3 min
546
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "The Seraph and Poet"
3 min
547
Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Sonnet"
3 min
548
Bradley Trumpfheller: "Loom"
2 min
549
Chrysanthemum: "Aubade for the Habana Inn"
5 min
550
Liv Mammone: "Fear"
2 min