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
651
Winnie Lewis Gravitt: "Sippokni Sia"
4 min
652
Randall Mann: "Cold War"
3 min
653
Patrick Phillips: "Galleria Ode"
2 min
654
Katie Ford: "Injury Room"
2 min
655
Guest Editor Interview: November Guest Editor S...
16 min
656
Alexis Aceves Garcia: "The Opposite of Abandonm...
4 min
657
Cristina Rivera Garza: "Saturday, April 17, 201...
5 min
658
E. E. Cummings: "Chansons Innocentes II"
3 min
659
Robert Frost: "In a Disused Graveyard"
3 min
660
Sarah Ghazal Ali: "Matrilineage (umbilicus)"
3 min
661
Maritza N. Estrada: "Audience"
6 min
662
Moncho Alvarado: "An Erasure of Senate Bill 169...
3 min
663
Ruth Ellen Kocher: "Grow"
4 min
664
Paul Hlava Ceballos: "ER S/P GSW"
3 min
665
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Tenebris"
3 min
666
W. B. Yeats: "The Host of the Air"
4 min
667
J. Estanislao Lopez: "The Systemic"
2 min
668
Jonah Mixon-Webster: "Territory"
3 min
669
Emily Lee Luan: "The warble of melting snow is ...
3 min
670
Vickie Vértiz: "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
3 min
671
Adam J. Gellings: "Somewhere Else"
2 min
672
Djuna Barnes: "She Passed This Way"
3 min
673
Robert Graves: "Children of Darkness"
3 min
674
Megan Fernandes: "Friends with No Benefits"
4 min
675
Chaun Webster: "[by way of entry you sit with a...
4 min