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
551
Carl Sandburg: From “The Windy City”
4 min
552
Effie Lee Newsome: "At the Pool"
4 min
553
Golden: "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"
3 min
554
Arianna Monet: "Thinking about “The Little Merm...
2 min
555
Justice Ameer: "Necessary Conditions"
2 min
556
C. T. Salazar: "River"
3 min
557
Gaia Rajan: "Dent"
2 min
558
William Carlos Williams: "The Lonely Street"
3 min
559
T. S. Eliot: "The Hollow Men"
6 min
560
Ilyus Evander: "tempo"
2 min
561
K. Iver: "The Gotham Hotel"
3 min
562
aeon ginsberg: "anyways im radicalized now"
5 min
563
Ally Ang: "Masculinity Ode"
2 min
564
jason b crawford: "Untitled 1975–86"
3 min
565
Archibald MacLeish: "The Altar"
3 min
566
Robinson Jeffers: "The Truce and the Peace"
14 min
567
Marlin M. Jenkins: "against cleansing"
2 min
568
Nen G. Ramirez: "Love poem with a dying cat"
4 min
569
Summer Farah: "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Et...
4 min
570
Xan Forest Phillips: "no one wants to be rough ...
3 min
571
Nora Hikari: "Imago Dei"
3 min
572
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "The Seraph and Poet"
3 min
573
Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Sonnet"
3 min
574
Bradley Trumpfheller: "Loom"
2 min
575
Chrysanthemum: "Aubade for the Habana Inn"
5 min