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 Genevieve Shubeck. 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
Kai Carlson-Wee: "Blue Room"
3 min
52
Anders Carlson-Wee: "Spirits"
2 min
53
Malia Maxwell: "In the not-not-woods"
4 min
54
Arno Holz, translated by Babette Deutsch and Av...
2 min
55
Maxine Scates: "Flyway"
3 min
56
Rebecca Bornstein: "Love Poem to Taco Bell"
4 min
57
Jake Young: "Working at the Distillery"
3 min
58
Thomas Centolella: "Cynthia Wanders My Neighbor...
3 min
59
Tracey Knapp: "To the Sea"
3 min
60
Thomas Wyatt: "[The long love that in my though...
2 min
61
Louis Untermeyer: "End of the Comedy"
2 min
62
Michael Montlack: “‘I came here to be a poet …’”
3 min
63
Alison Luterman: "What the Strength Card in the...
3 min
64
Arielle Hebert: "Our Book of Delights"
4 min
65
Celeste Doaks: "Daniel’s Response to Jet, or Wh...
3 min
66
Gary Young: "[Each morning before dawn,]"
2 min
67
Raffi Joe Wartanian: "Tongue"
3 min
68
Jesse Arlen: "𓆭 [Tree]"
3 min
69
Suzanne Cleary: "Mercury"
3 min
70
Didi Jackson: "Spot"
3 min
71
William Archila: "Ginebra"
4 min
72
Susan Deer Cloud: "Waking in Deep Night to the ...
5 min
73
Kathy Evans: "Bio"
2 min
74
Hrayr Varaz: "Ladletime: Night Time"
6 min
75
Lola Koundakjian: "The Little Boy"
2 min