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
976
Danez Smith: "anti poetica"
3 min
977
Jane Huffman: "On Moving"
2 min
978
Lisa Olstein: "Horse"
2 min
979
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
980
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
981
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
982
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
983
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
984
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
985
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
986
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
987
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
988
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
989
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
990
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
991
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
992
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
993
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
994
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
995
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
996
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
997
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
998
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
999
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
1000
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min