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
851
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
852
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
853
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
854
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
855
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
856
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
857
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
858
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
859
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
860
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
861
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
862
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
863
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
864
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
865
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
866
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
867
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
868
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
869
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
870
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
871
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
872
George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min
873
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Enchantment"
3 min
874
Tommy Archuleta: "Ancestry"
3 min
875
Maxine Scates: "Look"
3 min