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 Levin: "Dream Nest"
2 min
1152
Molly McCully Brown: "Virginia, Autumn"
3 min
1153
Dorianne Laux: "I Dare You"
4 min
1154
Victoria Chang: "Grass, 1967"
3 min
1155
Kahlil Gibran: "Youth and Age"
6 min
1156
al-Khansāʾ: "[When night draws on, remembering ...
3 min
1157
Guest Editor Interview: April 2023 Guest Editor...
10 min
1158
Danez Smith: "anti poetica"
3 min
1159
Jane Huffman: "On Moving"
2 min
1160
Lisa Olstein: "Horse"
2 min
1161
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
1162
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
1163
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
1164
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
1165
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
1166
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
1167
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
1168
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
1169
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
1170
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
1171
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
1172
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
1173
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
1174
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
1175
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min