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
al-Khansāʾ: "[When night draws on, remembering ...
3 min
852
Danez Smith: "anti poetica"
3 min
853
Jane Huffman: "On Moving"
2 min
854
Lisa Olstein: "Horse"
2 min
855
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
856
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
857
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
858
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
859
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
860
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
861
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
862
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
863
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
864
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
865
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
866
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
867
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
868
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
869
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
870
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
871
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
872
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
873
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
874
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
875
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min