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