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
Cal Bedient: "Expulsion"
4 min
627
Harryette Mullen: "Weathering Hate"
3 min
628
Lynn Xu: "[Sun-messenger]"
2 min
629
Brenda Hillman: "Porcelain Musician in a Child’...
3 min
630
Timothy Donnelly: "Habitable Nebula"
3 min
631
T. S. Eliot: "Journey of the Magi"
4 min
632
Christina Rossetti: "[A rose has thorns as well...
3 min
633
Juliana Huxtable: "KEY AND STRING"
3 min
634
Ariana Reines: "The Economy"
6 min
635
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "The Patient Ones"
2 min
636
Mónica de la Torre: "Theorem of Sorts"
5 min
637
Jericho Brown: "Lenoir"
3 min
638
John Clare: "Sheep in Winter"
3 min
639
Anne Bradstreet: "Winter"
4 min
640
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs: "suffering succotash"
6 min
641
Caleb Femi: "Baseline"
2 min
642
Joshua Weiner: "Solstice in Truro"
2 min
643
Nancy Kuhl: "Family Secret"
2 min
644
Juliana Spahr: "Ode to Goby"
5 min
645
Arthur Symons: "The Crying of Water"
3 min
646
Margaret Widdemer: "The Dark Cavalier"
3 min
647
Mia Kang: "Abracadabra"
3 min
648
Jerome Ellison Murphy: "Hanging"
3 min
649
Lisa Sewell: "The Land of Nod"
3 min
650
Kinsale Drake: "(Re)location"
3 min