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
1326
Victoria Chang: "Grass, 1967"
3 min
1327
Kahlil Gibran: "Youth and Age"
6 min
1328
al-Khansāʾ: "[When night draws on, remembering ...
3 min
1329
Guest Editor Interview: April 2023 Guest Editor...
10 min
1330
Danez Smith: "anti poetica"
3 min
1331
Jane Huffman: "On Moving"
2 min
1332
Lisa Olstein: "Horse"
2 min
1333
Dana Roeser: "Mouth"
3 min
1334
Virginia Konchan: "Ubi Sunt"
3 min
1335
Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
1336
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
1337
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
1338
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
1339
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
1340
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
1341
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
1342
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
1343
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
1344
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
1345
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
1346
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
1347
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
1348
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
1349
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
1350
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min