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
726
Robert Frost: "In a Disused Graveyard"
3 min
727
Sarah Ghazal Ali: "Matrilineage (umbilicus)"
3 min
728
Maritza N. Estrada: "Audience"
6 min
729
Moncho Alvarado: "An Erasure of Senate Bill 169...
3 min
730
Ruth Ellen Kocher: "Grow"
4 min
731
Paul Hlava Ceballos: "ER S/P GSW"
3 min
732
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Tenebris"
3 min
733
W. B. Yeats: "The Host of the Air"
4 min
734
J. Estanislao Lopez: "The Systemic"
2 min
735
Jonah Mixon-Webster: "Territory"
3 min
736
Emily Lee Luan: "The warble of melting snow is ...
3 min
737
Vickie Vértiz: "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
3 min
738
Adam J. Gellings: "Somewhere Else"
2 min
739
Djuna Barnes: "She Passed This Way"
3 min
740
Robert Graves: "Children of Darkness"
3 min
741
Megan Fernandes: "Friends with No Benefits"
4 min
742
Chaun Webster: "[by way of entry you sit with a...
4 min
743
Jos Charles: "A Sonnet"
3 min
744
Cass Donish: "You, Emblazoned"
4 min
745
Sara Borjas: "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
3 min
746
Elinor Wylie: "Let No Charitable Hope"
3 min
747
Wallace Stevens: "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"
3 min
748
Aracelis Girmay: "[to keep knowing]"
3 min
749
Jasminne Mendez: "Luke and the Frog: An America...
3 min
750
Giovannai Rosa: "a force is a push or a pull (5...
4 min