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
751
Sarah Ghazal Ali: "Matrilineage (umbilicus)"
3 min
752
Maritza N. Estrada: "Audience"
6 min
753
Moncho Alvarado: "An Erasure of Senate Bill 169...
3 min
754
Ruth Ellen Kocher: "Grow"
4 min
755
Paul Hlava Ceballos: "ER S/P GSW"
3 min
756
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Tenebris"
3 min
757
W. B. Yeats: "The Host of the Air"
4 min
758
J. Estanislao Lopez: "The Systemic"
2 min
759
Jonah Mixon-Webster: "Territory"
3 min
760
Emily Lee Luan: "The warble of melting snow is ...
3 min
761
Vickie Vértiz: "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
3 min
762
Adam J. Gellings: "Somewhere Else"
2 min
763
Djuna Barnes: "She Passed This Way"
3 min
764
Robert Graves: "Children of Darkness"
3 min
765
Megan Fernandes: "Friends with No Benefits"
4 min
766
Chaun Webster: "[by way of entry you sit with a...
4 min
767
Jos Charles: "A Sonnet"
3 min
768
Cass Donish: "You, Emblazoned"
4 min
769
Sara Borjas: "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
3 min
770
Elinor Wylie: "Let No Charitable Hope"
3 min
771
Wallace Stevens: "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"
3 min
772
Aracelis Girmay: "[to keep knowing]"
3 min
773
Jasminne Mendez: "Luke and the Frog: An America...
3 min
774
Giovannai Rosa: "a force is a push or a pull (5...
4 min
775
Janel Pineda: "Mujer Malvada"
3 min