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
1026
Malika Booker: "Jesus in the Wilderness"
5 min
1027
Marie-Ovide Dorcely: "Sojourner"
3 min
1028
Richard Scott: "Peridot"
4 min
1029
Amanda Johnston: "Bogeymen"
1 min
1030
Adam Wiedewitsch: "If Night You Were a City"
4 min
1031
Emily Dickinson: "One Year ago—jots what? (296)"
4 min
1032
Wilfred Owen: "Winter Song"
3 min
1033
Guest Editor Interview: January 2024 Guest Edit...
15 min
1034
Cal Bedient: "Expulsion"
4 min
1035
Harryette Mullen: "Weathering Hate"
3 min
1036
Lynn Xu: "[Sun-messenger]"
2 min
1037
Brenda Hillman: "Porcelain Musician in a Child’...
3 min
1038
Timothy Donnelly: "Habitable Nebula"
3 min
1039
T. S. Eliot: "Journey of the Magi"
4 min
1040
Christina Rossetti: "[A rose has thorns as well...
3 min
1041
Juliana Huxtable: "KEY AND STRING"
3 min
1042
Ariana Reines: "The Economy"
6 min
1043
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "The Patient Ones"
2 min
1044
Mónica de la Torre: "Theorem of Sorts"
5 min
1045
Jericho Brown: "Lenoir"
3 min
1046
John Clare: "Sheep in Winter"
3 min
1047
Anne Bradstreet: "Winter"
4 min
1048
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs: "suffering succotash"
6 min
1049
Caleb Femi: "Baseline"
2 min
1050
Joshua Weiner: "Solstice in Truro"
2 min