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
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
1352
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
1353
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
1354
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
1355
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
1356
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
1357
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
1358
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
1359
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
1360
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
1361
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
1362
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
1363
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
1364
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
1365
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
1366
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
1367
George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min
1368
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Enchantment"
3 min
1369
Tommy Archuleta: "Ancestry"
3 min
1370
Maxine Scates: "Look"
3 min
1371
Jose Hernandez Diaz: "Hey,"
2 min
1372
Guest Editor Interview: March 2023 Guest Editor...
30 min
1373
John S. Blake: "No Room to Form"
3 min
1374
Charif Shanahan: "Indeterminacy"
2 min
1375
Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Slow through the Dark"
2 min