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
676
Alexis Aceves Garcia: "The Opposite of Abandonm...
4 min
677
Cristina Rivera Garza: "Saturday, April 17, 201...
5 min
678
E. E. Cummings: "Chansons Innocentes II"
3 min
679
Robert Frost: "In a Disused Graveyard"
3 min
680
Sarah Ghazal Ali: "Matrilineage (umbilicus)"
3 min
681
Maritza N. Estrada: "Audience"
6 min
682
Moncho Alvarado: "An Erasure of Senate Bill 169...
3 min
683
Ruth Ellen Kocher: "Grow"
4 min
684
Paul Hlava Ceballos: "ER S/P GSW"
3 min
685
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Tenebris"
3 min
686
W. B. Yeats: "The Host of the Air"
4 min
687
J. Estanislao Lopez: "The Systemic"
2 min
688
Jonah Mixon-Webster: "Territory"
3 min
689
Emily Lee Luan: "The warble of melting snow is ...
3 min
690
Vickie Vértiz: "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
3 min
691
Adam J. Gellings: "Somewhere Else"
2 min
692
Djuna Barnes: "She Passed This Way"
3 min
693
Robert Graves: "Children of Darkness"
3 min
694
Megan Fernandes: "Friends with No Benefits"
4 min
695
Chaun Webster: "[by way of entry you sit with a...
4 min
696
Jos Charles: "A Sonnet"
3 min
697
Cass Donish: "You, Emblazoned"
4 min
698
Sara Borjas: "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
3 min
699
Elinor Wylie: "Let No Charitable Hope"
3 min
700
Wallace Stevens: "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"
3 min