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
Matthew Wimberley: "Materials for a Gravestone ...
4 min
1152
Paige Lewis: "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, H...
2 min
1153
John Crowe Ransom: "Winter Remembered"
3 min
1154
Léonie Adams: "A Gull Goes Up"
3 min
1155
Renia White: "off the shore of oneself as in . ...
2 min
1156
Rob Greene: "To the Young Second Lieutenant Sta...
3 min
1157
Sarah Cooper: "Elastic Love Contrapuntal"
4 min
1158
Leila Chatti: "I Went Out to Hear"
3 min
1159
Urayoán Noel: "cinquains written during a tropi...
4 min
1160
Francis Thompson: "New Year's Chimes"
6 min
1161
Guest Editor Interview: January 2023 Guest Edit...
13 min
1162
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Death of the Old Year"
5 min
1163
Jim Moore: "The Need Is So Great"
3 min
1164
Peter Streckfus: "Chorus"
4 min
1165
Nikki Wallschlaeger: "Cows in the Evening"
3 min
1166
Jacqueline Osherow: "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Ma...
3 min
1167
Brenda Hillman: "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mothe...
4 min
1168
Arno Holz: from "Phantasus"
3 min
1169
Thomas Hardy: "Snow in the Suburbs"
3 min
1170
Jenny Xie: "Abstract with Red Square"
3 min
1171
Monica Sok: "Retirement"
3 min
1172
Anne Haven McDonnell: "Owl"
3 min
1173
Jennifer Elise Foerster: "Origin of Planets"
5 min
1174
John Yau: "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the...
4 min
1175
Robert Burns: "Winter: A Dirge"
4 min