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
551
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
552
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
553
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
554
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
555
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
556
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
557
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
558
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
559
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
560
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
561
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
562
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
563
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
564
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
565
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
566
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
567
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
568
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
569
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
570
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
571
George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min
572
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Enchantment"
3 min
573
Tommy Archuleta: "Ancestry"
3 min
574
Maxine Scates: "Look"
3 min
575
Jose Hernandez Diaz: "Hey,"
2 min