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
926
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
927
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
928
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
929
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
930
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
931
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
932
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
933
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
934
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
935
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
936
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
937
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
938
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
939
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
940
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
941
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
942
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
943
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
944
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
945
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
946
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
947
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
948
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
949
George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min
950
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Enchantment"
3 min