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
1151
Sarah Cooper: "Elastic Love Contrapuntal"
4 min
1152
Leila Chatti: "I Went Out to Hear"
3 min
1153
Urayoán Noel: "cinquains written during a tropi...
4 min
1154
Francis Thompson: "New Year's Chimes"
6 min
1155
Guest Editor Interview: January 2023 Guest Edit...
13 min
1156
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Death of the Old Year"
5 min
1157
Jim Moore: "The Need Is So Great"
3 min
1158
Peter Streckfus: "Chorus"
4 min
1159
Nikki Wallschlaeger: "Cows in the Evening"
3 min
1160
Jacqueline Osherow: "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Ma...
3 min
1161
Brenda Hillman: "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mothe...
4 min
1162
Arno Holz: from "Phantasus"
3 min
1163
Thomas Hardy: "Snow in the Suburbs"
3 min
1164
Jenny Xie: "Abstract with Red Square"
3 min
1165
Monica Sok: "Retirement"
3 min
1166
Anne Haven McDonnell: "Owl"
3 min
1167
Jennifer Elise Foerster: "Origin of Planets"
5 min
1168
John Yau: "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the...
4 min
1169
Robert Burns: "Winter: A Dirge"
4 min
1170
Esther Popel: "Theft"
4 min
1171
Jeffrey Yang: "[Early lexicographers and missio...
3 min
1172
Gregory Pardlo: from "Giornata"
3 min
1173
Cintia Santana: "apocalyptic lyric"
3 min
1174
Dan Beachy-Quick: "Onta"
3 min
1175
Chloe Garcia Roberts: Rendering from “Historia ...
3 min