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
1276
Paige Lewis: "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, H...
2 min
1277
John Crowe Ransom: "Winter Remembered"
3 min
1278
Léonie Adams: "A Gull Goes Up"
3 min
1279
Renia White: "off the shore of oneself as in . ...
2 min
1280
Rob Greene: "To the Young Second Lieutenant Sta...
3 min
1281
Sarah Cooper: "Elastic Love Contrapuntal"
4 min
1282
Leila Chatti: "I Went Out to Hear"
3 min
1283
Urayoán Noel: "cinquains written during a tropi...
4 min
1284
Francis Thompson: "New Year's Chimes"
6 min
1285
Guest Editor Interview: January 2023 Guest Edit...
13 min
1286
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Death of the Old Year"
5 min
1287
Jim Moore: "The Need Is So Great"
3 min
1288
Peter Streckfus: "Chorus"
4 min
1289
Nikki Wallschlaeger: "Cows in the Evening"
3 min
1290
Jacqueline Osherow: "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Ma...
3 min
1291
Brenda Hillman: "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mothe...
4 min
1292
Arno Holz: from "Phantasus"
3 min
1293
Thomas Hardy: "Snow in the Suburbs"
3 min
1294
Jenny Xie: "Abstract with Red Square"
3 min
1295
Monica Sok: "Retirement"
3 min
1296
Anne Haven McDonnell: "Owl"
3 min
1297
Jennifer Elise Foerster: "Origin of Planets"
5 min
1298
John Yau: "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the...
4 min
1299
Robert Burns: "Winter: A Dirge"
4 min
1300
Esther Popel: "Theft"
4 min