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
Winnie Lewis Gravitt: "Sippokni Sia"
4 min
552
Randall Mann: "Cold War"
3 min
553
Patrick Phillips: "Galleria Ode"
2 min
554
Katie Ford: "Injury Room"
2 min
555
Guest Editor Interview: November Guest Editor S...
16 min
556
Alexis Aceves Garcia: "The Opposite of Abandonm...
4 min
557
Cristina Rivera Garza: "Saturday, April 17, 201...
5 min
558
E. E. Cummings: "Chansons Innocentes II"
3 min
559
Robert Frost: "In a Disused Graveyard"
3 min
560
Sarah Ghazal Ali: "Matrilineage (umbilicus)"
3 min
561
Maritza N. Estrada: "Audience"
6 min
562
Moncho Alvarado: "An Erasure of Senate Bill 169...
3 min
563
Ruth Ellen Kocher: "Grow"
4 min
564
Paul Hlava Ceballos: "ER S/P GSW"
3 min
565
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Tenebris"
3 min
566
W. B. Yeats: "The Host of the Air"
4 min
567
J. Estanislao Lopez: "The Systemic"
2 min
568
Jonah Mixon-Webster: "Territory"
3 min
569
Emily Lee Luan: "The warble of melting snow is ...
3 min
570
Vickie Vértiz: "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
3 min
571
Adam J. Gellings: "Somewhere Else"
2 min
572
Djuna Barnes: "She Passed This Way"
3 min
573
Robert Graves: "Children of Darkness"
3 min
574
Megan Fernandes: "Friends with No Benefits"
4 min
575
Chaun Webster: "[by way of entry you sit with a...
4 min