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
1201
Paige Lewis: "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, H...
2 min
1202
John Crowe Ransom: "Winter Remembered"
3 min
1203
Léonie Adams: "A Gull Goes Up"
3 min
1204
Renia White: "off the shore of oneself as in . ...
2 min
1205
Rob Greene: "To the Young Second Lieutenant Sta...
3 min
1206
Sarah Cooper: "Elastic Love Contrapuntal"
4 min
1207
Leila Chatti: "I Went Out to Hear"
3 min
1208
Urayoán Noel: "cinquains written during a tropi...
4 min
1209
Francis Thompson: "New Year's Chimes"
6 min
1210
Guest Editor Interview: January 2023 Guest Edit...
13 min
1211
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Death of the Old Year"
5 min
1212
Jim Moore: "The Need Is So Great"
3 min
1213
Peter Streckfus: "Chorus"
4 min
1214
Nikki Wallschlaeger: "Cows in the Evening"
3 min
1215
Jacqueline Osherow: "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Ma...
3 min
1216
Brenda Hillman: "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mothe...
4 min
1217
Arno Holz: from "Phantasus"
3 min
1218
Thomas Hardy: "Snow in the Suburbs"
3 min
1219
Jenny Xie: "Abstract with Red Square"
3 min
1220
Monica Sok: "Retirement"
3 min
1221
Anne Haven McDonnell: "Owl"
3 min
1222
Jennifer Elise Foerster: "Origin of Planets"
5 min
1223
John Yau: "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the...
4 min
1224
Robert Burns: "Winter: A Dirge"
4 min
1225
Esther Popel: "Theft"
4 min