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
801
Effie Lee Newsome: "At the Pool"
4 min
802
Golden: "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"
3 min
803
Arianna Monet: "Thinking about “The Little Merm...
2 min
804
Justice Ameer: "Necessary Conditions"
2 min
805
C. T. Salazar: "River"
3 min
806
Gaia Rajan: "Dent"
2 min
807
William Carlos Williams: "The Lonely Street"
3 min
808
T. S. Eliot: "The Hollow Men"
6 min
809
Ilyus Evander: "tempo"
2 min
810
K. Iver: "The Gotham Hotel"
3 min
811
aeon ginsberg: "anyways im radicalized now"
5 min
812
Ally Ang: "Masculinity Ode"
2 min
813
jason b crawford: "Untitled 1975–86"
3 min
814
Archibald MacLeish: "The Altar"
3 min
815
Robinson Jeffers: "The Truce and the Peace"
14 min
816
Marlin M. Jenkins: "against cleansing"
2 min
817
Nen G. Ramirez: "Love poem with a dying cat"
4 min
818
Summer Farah: "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Et...
4 min
819
Xan Forest Phillips: "no one wants to be rough ...
3 min
820
Nora Hikari: "Imago Dei"
3 min
821
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "The Seraph and Poet"
3 min
822
Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Sonnet"
3 min
823
Bradley Trumpfheller: "Loom"
2 min
824
Chrysanthemum: "Aubade for the Habana Inn"
5 min
825
Liv Mammone: "Fear"
2 min