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
976
Dana Levin: "Dream Nest"
2 min
977
Molly McCully Brown: "Virginia, Autumn"
3 min
978
Dorianne Laux: "I Dare You"
4 min
979
Victoria Chang: "Grass, 1967"
3 min
980
Kahlil Gibran: "Youth and Age"
6 min
981
Guest Editor Interview: April 2023 Guest Editor...
10 min
982
al-Khansāʾ: "[When night draws on, remembering ...
3 min
983
Danez Smith: "anti poetica"
3 min
984
Jane Huffman: "On Moving"
2 min
985
Lisa Olstein: "Horse"
2 min
986
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
987
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
988
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
989
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
990
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
991
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
992
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
993
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
994
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
995
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
996
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
997
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
998
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
999
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
1000
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min