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
951
Lisa Olstein: "Horse"
2 min
952
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
953
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
954
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
955
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
956
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
957
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
958
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
959
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
960
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
961
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
962
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
963
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
964
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
965
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
966
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
967
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
968
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
969
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
970
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
971
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
972
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
973
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
974
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
975
George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min