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