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
101
Lory Bedikian: "My Son Rests His Cheek on the W...
3 min
102
Kai Carlson-Wee: "Blue Room"
3 min
103
Anders Carlson-Wee: "Spirits"
2 min
104
Malia Maxwell: "In the not-not-woods"
4 min
105
Arno Holz, translated by Babette Deutsch and Av...
2 min
106
Maxine Scates: "Flyway"
3 min
107
Rebecca Bornstein: "Love Poem to Taco Bell"
4 min
108
Jake Young: "Working at the Distillery"
3 min
109
Thomas Centolella: "Cynthia Wanders My Neighbor...
3 min
110
Tracey Knapp: "To the Sea"
3 min
111
Thomas Wyatt: "[The long love that in my though...
2 min
112
Louis Untermeyer: "End of the Comedy"
2 min
113
Michael Montlack: “‘I came here to be a poet …’”
3 min
114
Alison Luterman: "What the Strength Card in the...
3 min
115
Arielle Hebert: "Our Book of Delights"
4 min
116
Celeste Doaks: "Daniel’s Response to Jet, or Wh...
3 min
117
Gary Young: "[Each morning before dawn,]"
2 min
118
Raffi Joe Wartanian: "Tongue"
3 min
119
Jesse Arlen: "𓆭 [Tree]"
3 min
120
Suzanne Cleary: "Mercury"
3 min
121
Didi Jackson: "Spot"
3 min
122
William Archila: "Ginebra"
4 min
123
Susan Deer Cloud: "Waking in Deep Night to the ...
5 min
124
Kathy Evans: "Bio"
2 min
125
Hrayr Varaz: "Ladletime: Night Time"
6 min