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.
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Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
1327
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
1328
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
1329
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
1330
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
1331
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
1332
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
1333
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
1334
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
1335
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
1336
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
1337
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
1338
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
1339
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
1340
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
1341
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
1342
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
1343
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
1344
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
1345
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
1346
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
1347
George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min
1348
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Enchantment"
3 min
1349
Tommy Archuleta: "Ancestry"
3 min
1350
Maxine Scates: "Look"
3 min