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
Alexis Aceves Garcia: "The Opposite of Abandonm...
4 min
752
Cristina Rivera Garza: "Saturday, April 17, 201...
5 min
753
E. E. Cummings: "Chansons Innocentes II"
3 min
754
Robert Frost: "In a Disused Graveyard"
3 min
755
Sarah Ghazal Ali: "Matrilineage (umbilicus)"
3 min
756
Maritza N. Estrada: "Audience"
6 min
757
Moncho Alvarado: "An Erasure of Senate Bill 169...
3 min
758
Ruth Ellen Kocher: "Grow"
4 min
759
Paul Hlava Ceballos: "ER S/P GSW"
3 min
760
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Tenebris"
3 min
761
W. B. Yeats: "The Host of the Air"
4 min
762
J. Estanislao Lopez: "The Systemic"
2 min
763
Jonah Mixon-Webster: "Territory"
3 min
764
Emily Lee Luan: "The warble of melting snow is ...
3 min
765
Vickie Vértiz: "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
3 min
766
Adam J. Gellings: "Somewhere Else"
2 min
767
Djuna Barnes: "She Passed This Way"
3 min
768
Robert Graves: "Children of Darkness"
3 min
769
Megan Fernandes: "Friends with No Benefits"
4 min
770
Chaun Webster: "[by way of entry you sit with a...
4 min
771
Jos Charles: "A Sonnet"
3 min
772
Cass Donish: "You, Emblazoned"
4 min
773
Sara Borjas: "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
3 min
774
Elinor Wylie: "Let No Charitable Hope"
3 min
775
Wallace Stevens: "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"
3 min