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
701
Alexis Aceves Garcia: "The Opposite of Abandonm...
4 min
702
Cristina Rivera Garza: "Saturday, April 17, 201...
5 min
703
E. E. Cummings: "Chansons Innocentes II"
3 min
704
Robert Frost: "In a Disused Graveyard"
3 min
705
Sarah Ghazal Ali: "Matrilineage (umbilicus)"
3 min
706
Maritza N. Estrada: "Audience"
6 min
707
Moncho Alvarado: "An Erasure of Senate Bill 169...
3 min
708
Ruth Ellen Kocher: "Grow"
4 min
709
Paul Hlava Ceballos: "ER S/P GSW"
3 min
710
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Tenebris"
3 min
711
W. B. Yeats: "The Host of the Air"
4 min
712
J. Estanislao Lopez: "The Systemic"
2 min
713
Jonah Mixon-Webster: "Territory"
3 min
714
Emily Lee Luan: "The warble of melting snow is ...
3 min
715
Vickie Vértiz: "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
3 min
716
Adam J. Gellings: "Somewhere Else"
2 min
717
Djuna Barnes: "She Passed This Way"
3 min
718
Robert Graves: "Children of Darkness"
3 min
719
Megan Fernandes: "Friends with No Benefits"
4 min
720
Chaun Webster: "[by way of entry you sit with a...
4 min
721
Jos Charles: "A Sonnet"
3 min
722
Cass Donish: "You, Emblazoned"
4 min
723
Sara Borjas: "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
3 min
724
Elinor Wylie: "Let No Charitable Hope"
3 min
725
Wallace Stevens: "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"
3 min