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
576
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
577
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
578
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
579
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
580
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
581
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
582
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
583
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
584
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
585
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
586
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
587
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
588
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
589
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
590
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
591
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
592
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
593
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
594
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
595
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
596
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
597
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
598
George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min
599
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Enchantment"
3 min
600
Tommy Archuleta: "Ancestry"
3 min