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
1176
Dorianne Laux: "I Dare You"
4 min
1177
Victoria Chang: "Grass, 1967"
3 min
1178
Kahlil Gibran: "Youth and Age"
6 min
1179
al-Khansāʾ: "[When night draws on, remembering ...
3 min
1180
Guest Editor Interview: April 2023 Guest Editor...
10 min
1181
Danez Smith: "anti poetica"
3 min
1182
Jane Huffman: "On Moving"
2 min
1183
Lisa Olstein: "Horse"
2 min
1184
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
1185
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
1186
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
1187
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
1188
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
1189
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
1190
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
1191
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
1192
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
1193
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
1194
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
1195
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
1196
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
1197
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
1198
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
1199
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
1200
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min