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
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
1152
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
1153
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
1154
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
1155
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
1156
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
1157
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
1158
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
1159
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
1160
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
1161
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
1162
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
1163
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
1164
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
1165
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
1166
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
1167
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
1168
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
1169
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
1170
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
1171
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
1172
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
1173
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
1174
George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min
1175
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Enchantment"
3 min