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
Dorianne Laux: "I Dare You"
4 min
852
Victoria Chang: "Grass, 1967"
3 min
853
Kahlil Gibran: "Youth and Age"
6 min
854
Guest Editor Interview: April 2023 Guest Editor...
10 min
855
al-Khansāʾ: "[When night draws on, remembering ...
3 min
856
Danez Smith: "anti poetica"
3 min
857
Jane Huffman: "On Moving"
2 min
858
Lisa Olstein: "Horse"
2 min
859
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
860
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
861
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
862
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
863
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
864
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
865
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
866
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
867
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
868
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
869
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
870
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
871
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
872
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
873
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
874
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
875
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min