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
1351
Paige Lewis: "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, H...
2 min
1352
John Crowe Ransom: "Winter Remembered"
3 min
1353
Léonie Adams: "A Gull Goes Up"
3 min
1354
Renia White: "off the shore of oneself as in . ...
2 min
1355
Rob Greene: "To the Young Second Lieutenant Sta...
3 min
1356
Sarah Cooper: "Elastic Love Contrapuntal"
4 min
1357
Leila Chatti: "I Went Out to Hear"
3 min
1358
Urayoán Noel: "cinquains written during a tropi...
4 min
1359
Francis Thompson: "New Year's Chimes"
6 min
1360
Guest Editor Interview: January 2023 Guest Edit...
13 min
1361
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Death of the Old Year"
5 min
1362
Jim Moore: "The Need Is So Great"
3 min
1363
Peter Streckfus: "Chorus"
4 min
1364
Nikki Wallschlaeger: "Cows in the Evening"
3 min
1365
Jacqueline Osherow: "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Ma...
3 min
1366
Brenda Hillman: "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mothe...
4 min
1367
Arno Holz: from "Phantasus"
3 min
1368
Thomas Hardy: "Snow in the Suburbs"
3 min
1369
Jenny Xie: "Abstract with Red Square"
3 min
1370
Monica Sok: "Retirement"
3 min
1371
Anne Haven McDonnell: "Owl"
3 min
1372
Jennifer Elise Foerster: "Origin of Planets"
5 min
1373
John Yau: "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the...
4 min
1374
Robert Burns: "Winter: A Dirge"
4 min
1375
Esther Popel: "Theft"
4 min