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