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
Cristina Rivera Garza: "Saturday, April 17, 201...
5 min
1152
E. E. Cummings: "Chansons Innocentes II"
3 min
1153
Robert Frost: "In a Disused Graveyard"
3 min
1154
Sarah Ghazal Ali: "Matrilineage (umbilicus)"
3 min
1155
Maritza N. Estrada: "Audience"
6 min
1156
Moncho Alvarado: "An Erasure of Senate Bill 169...
3 min
1157
Ruth Ellen Kocher: "Grow"
4 min
1158
Paul Hlava Ceballos: "ER S/P GSW"
3 min
1159
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Tenebris"
3 min
1160
W. B. Yeats: "The Host of the Air"
4 min
1161
J. Estanislao Lopez: "The Systemic"
2 min
1162
Jonah Mixon-Webster: "Territory"
3 min
1163
Emily Lee Luan: "The warble of melting snow is ...
3 min
1164
Vickie Vértiz: "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
3 min
1165
Adam J. Gellings: "Somewhere Else"
2 min
1166
Djuna Barnes: "She Passed This Way"
3 min
1167
Robert Graves: "Children of Darkness"
3 min
1168
Megan Fernandes: "Friends with No Benefits"
4 min
1169
Chaun Webster: "[by way of entry you sit with a...
4 min
1170
Jos Charles: "A Sonnet"
3 min
1171
Cass Donish: "You, Emblazoned"
4 min
1172
Sara Borjas: "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
3 min
1173
Elinor Wylie: "Let No Charitable Hope"
3 min
1174
Wallace Stevens: "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"
3 min
1175
Aracelis Girmay: "[to keep knowing]"
3 min