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