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
901
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
902
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
903
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
904
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
905
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
906
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
907
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
908
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
909
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
910
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
911
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
912
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
913
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
914
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
915
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
916
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
917
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
918
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
919
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
920
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
921
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
922
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
923
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
924
George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min
925
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Enchantment"
3 min