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