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
1051
Ina Cariño: "Everything is Exactly the Same as ...
3 min
1052
Nabila Lovelace: "Ars Poetica"
2 min
1053
Countee Cullen: "Confession"
2 min
1054
Charlotte Mew: "The Forest Road"
8 min
1055
A. H. Jerriod Avant: "Who Can Govern Themselves...
3 min
1056
K. D. Harryman: "Whipping"
2 min
1057
Karisma Price: "Castnet Seafood"
4 min
1058
Matthew Wimberley: "Materials for a Gravestone ...
4 min
1059
Paige Lewis: "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, H...
2 min
1060
John Crowe Ransom: "Winter Remembered"
3 min
1061
Léonie Adams: "A Gull Goes Up"
3 min
1062
Renia White: "off the shore of oneself as in . ...
2 min
1063
Rob Greene: "To the Young Second Lieutenant Sta...
3 min
1064
Sarah Cooper: "Elastic Love Contrapuntal"
4 min
1065
Leila Chatti: "I Went Out to Hear"
3 min
1066
Urayoán Noel: "cinquains written during a tropi...
4 min
1067
Francis Thompson: "New Year's Chimes"
6 min
1068
Guest Editor Interview: January 2023 Guest Edit...
13 min
1069
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Death of the Old Year"
5 min
1070
Jim Moore: "The Need Is So Great"
3 min
1071
Peter Streckfus: "Chorus"
4 min
1072
Nikki Wallschlaeger: "Cows in the Evening"
3 min
1073
Jacqueline Osherow: "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Ma...
3 min
1074
Brenda Hillman: "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mothe...
4 min
1075
Arno Holz: from "Phantasus"
3 min