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
51
Tarik Dobbs: "Artist Statement"
2 min
52
Spencer Williams: "I wake at dawn to glimpse my...
2 min
53
Carl Sandburg: From “The Windy City”
4 min
54
Effie Lee Newsome: "At the Pool"
4 min
55
Golden: "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"
3 min
56
Arianna Monet: "Thinking about “The Little Merm...
2 min
57
Justice Ameer: "Necessary Conditions"
2 min
58
C. T. Salazar: "River"
3 min
59
Gaia Rajan: "Dent"
2 min
60
William Carlos Williams: "The Lonely Street"
3 min
61
T. S. Eliot: "The Hollow Men"
6 min
62
Ilyus Evander: "tempo"
2 min
63
K. Iver: "The Gotham Hotel"
3 min
64
aeon ginsberg: "anyways im radicalized now"
5 min
65
Ally Ang: "Masculinity Ode"
2 min
66
jason b crawford: "Untitled 1975–86"
3 min
67
Archibald MacLeish: "The Altar"
3 min
68
Robinson Jeffers: "The Truce and the Peace"
14 min
69
Marlin M. Jenkins: "against cleansing"
2 min
70
Nen G. Ramirez: "Love poem with a dying cat"
4 min
71
Summer Farah: "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Et...
4 min
72
Xan Forest Phillips: "no one wants to be rough ...
3 min
73
Nora Hikari: "Imago Dei"
3 min
74
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "The Seraph and Poet"
3 min
75
Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Sonnet"
3 min