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
Kahlil Gibran: "Youth and Age"
6 min
652
Guest Editor Interview: April 2023 Guest Editor...
10 min
653
al-Khansāʾ: "[When night draws on, remembering ...
3 min
654
Danez Smith: "anti poetica"
3 min
655
Jane Huffman: "On Moving"
2 min
656
Lisa Olstein: "Horse"
2 min
657
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
658
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
659
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
660
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
661
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
662
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
663
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
664
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
665
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
666
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
667
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
668
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
669
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
670
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
671
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
672
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
673
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
674
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
675
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min