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
1026
Matthew Wimberley: "Materials for a Gravestone ...
4 min
1027
Paige Lewis: "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, H...
2 min
1028
John Crowe Ransom: "Winter Remembered"
3 min
1029
Léonie Adams: "A Gull Goes Up"
3 min
1030
Renia White: "off the shore of oneself as in . ...
2 min
1031
Rob Greene: "To the Young Second Lieutenant Sta...
3 min
1032
Sarah Cooper: "Elastic Love Contrapuntal"
4 min
1033
Leila Chatti: "I Went Out to Hear"
3 min
1034
Urayoán Noel: "cinquains written during a tropi...
4 min
1035
Francis Thompson: "New Year's Chimes"
6 min
1036
Guest Editor Interview: January 2023 Guest Edit...
13 min
1037
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Death of the Old Year"
5 min
1038
Jim Moore: "The Need Is So Great"
3 min
1039
Peter Streckfus: "Chorus"
4 min
1040
Nikki Wallschlaeger: "Cows in the Evening"
3 min
1041
Jacqueline Osherow: "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Ma...
3 min
1042
Brenda Hillman: "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mothe...
4 min
1043
Arno Holz: from "Phantasus"
3 min
1044
Thomas Hardy: "Snow in the Suburbs"
3 min
1045
Jenny Xie: "Abstract with Red Square"
3 min
1046
Monica Sok: "Retirement"
3 min
1047
Anne Haven McDonnell: "Owl"
3 min
1048
Jennifer Elise Foerster: "Origin of Planets"
5 min
1049
John Yau: "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the...
4 min
1050
Robert Burns: "Winter: A Dirge"
4 min