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
1126
Imruʾ al-Qais: from "The Ode of Ímr el Káis"
4 min
1127
Edna K. Saloomey: "My Lebanon"
3 min
1128
Carl Phillips: "Western Edge"
2 min
1129
Dana Levin: "Dream Nest"
2 min
1130
Molly McCully Brown: "Virginia, Autumn"
3 min
1131
Dorianne Laux: "I Dare You"
4 min
1132
Victoria Chang: "Grass, 1967"
3 min
1133
Kahlil Gibran: "Youth and Age"
6 min
1134
al-Khansāʾ: "[When night draws on, remembering ...
3 min
1135
Guest Editor Interview: April 2023 Guest Editor...
10 min
1136
Danez Smith: "anti poetica"
3 min
1137
Jane Huffman: "On Moving"
2 min
1138
Lisa Olstein: "Horse"
2 min
1139
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
1140
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
1141
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
1142
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
1143
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
1144
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
1145
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
1146
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
1147
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
1148
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
1149
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
1150
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min