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
Jane Huffman: "On Moving"
2 min
1027
Lisa Olstein: "Horse"
2 min
1028
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
1029
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
1030
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
1031
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
1032
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
1033
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
1034
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
1035
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
1036
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
1037
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
1038
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
1039
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
1040
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
1041
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
1042
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
1043
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
1044
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
1045
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
1046
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
1047
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
1048
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
1049
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
1050
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min