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 Genevieve Shubeck. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
76
Walter de la Mare: "A Song of Enchantment"
3 min
77
H. R. Webster: "Oranges"
5 min
78
Lawrence Joseph: "The Imagination Completes Its...
3 min
79
Megan Levad Beisner: "The woman who cut and pai...
3 min
80
Robert Laidler: "Jr"
3 min
81
Jennifer Huang: "Gender Euphoria and the Superb...
3 min
82
John Berryman: "Footing Our Cabin’s Lawn, Befor...
2 min
83
Wallace Stevens: "The Plot Against the Giant"
3 min
84
Richard Jackson: "A Loud Death"
5 min
85
Sophia Terazawa: From "September Roams a Vertic...
3 min
86
Maura Stanton: "A Night in Chicago"
3 min
87
Arthur Sze: "Qinghai Lake"
3 min
88
Brian Gyamfi: "The Thing Dead on the Road"
2 min
89
Guest Editor Interview: December 2025 Guest Edi...
18 min
90
Anonymous, translated by Frances Densmore: "My ...
2 min
91
Marianne Moore: "Dock Rats"
4 min
92
Nicholas Friedman: "Night Before"
2 min
93
Casandra López: "Language Studies: ‘Wiishmenok ...
3 min
94
Abigail Chabitnoy: "Everything Exactly as It Se...
3 min
95
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers: "Jessica McClure, Aft...
4 min
96
Benjamin Garcia: "Egg Tooth"
3 min
97
Samuel Alfred Beadle: "Alice"
3 min
98
Anne Brontë: "Night"
3 min
99
Lisa Bickmore: "flit [sparrow]"
3 min
100
Kimberly Blaeser: "Postures of Devotion"
7 min