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
Lisa Olstein: "Horse"
2 min
1252
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
1253
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
1254
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
1255
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
1256
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
1257
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
1258
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
1259
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
1260
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
1261
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
1262
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
1263
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
1264
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
1265
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
1266
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
1267
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
1268
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
1269
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
1270
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
1271
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
1272
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
1273
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
1274
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
1275
George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min