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
801
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
802
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
803
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
804
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
805
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
806
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
807
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
808
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
809
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
810
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
811
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
812
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
813
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
814
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
815
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
816
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
817
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
818
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
819
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
820
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
821
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
822
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
823
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
824
George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min
825
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Enchantment"
3 min