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
1251
Dorianne Laux: "I Dare You"
4 min
1252
Victoria Chang: "Grass, 1967"
3 min
1253
Kahlil Gibran: "Youth and Age"
6 min
1254
al-Khansāʾ: "[When night draws on, remembering ...
3 min
1255
Guest Editor Interview: April 2023 Guest Editor...
10 min
1256
Danez Smith: "anti poetica"
3 min
1257
Jane Huffman: "On Moving"
2 min
1258
Lisa Olstein: "Horse"
2 min
1259
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
1260
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
1261
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
1262
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
1263
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
1264
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
1265
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
1266
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
1267
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
1268
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
1269
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
1270
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
1271
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
1272
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
1273
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
1274
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
1275
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min