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
626
E. E. Cummings: "Chansons Innocentes II"
3 min
627
Robert Frost: "In a Disused Graveyard"
3 min
628
Sarah Ghazal Ali: "Matrilineage (umbilicus)"
3 min
629
Maritza N. Estrada: "Audience"
6 min
630
Moncho Alvarado: "An Erasure of Senate Bill 169...
3 min
631
Ruth Ellen Kocher: "Grow"
4 min
632
Paul Hlava Ceballos: "ER S/P GSW"
3 min
633
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Tenebris"
3 min
634
W. B. Yeats: "The Host of the Air"
4 min
635
J. Estanislao Lopez: "The Systemic"
2 min
636
Jonah Mixon-Webster: "Territory"
3 min
637
Emily Lee Luan: "The warble of melting snow is ...
3 min
638
Vickie Vértiz: "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
3 min
639
Adam J. Gellings: "Somewhere Else"
2 min
640
Djuna Barnes: "She Passed This Way"
3 min
641
Robert Graves: "Children of Darkness"
3 min
642
Megan Fernandes: "Friends with No Benefits"
4 min
643
Chaun Webster: "[by way of entry you sit with a...
4 min
644
Jos Charles: "A Sonnet"
3 min
645
Cass Donish: "You, Emblazoned"
4 min
646
Sara Borjas: "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
3 min
647
Elinor Wylie: "Let No Charitable Hope"
3 min
648
Wallace Stevens: "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"
3 min
649
Aracelis Girmay: "[to keep knowing]"
3 min
650
Jasminne Mendez: "Luke and the Frog: An America...
3 min