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
1377
Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
1378
Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
1379
Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
1380
Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
1381
Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
1382
Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
1383
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
1384
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
1385
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
1386
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
1387
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
1388
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
1389
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
1390
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
1391
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
1392
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
1393
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
1394
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
1395
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
1396
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
1397
George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min
1398
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Enchantment"
3 min
1399
Tommy Archuleta: "Ancestry"
3 min
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Maxine Scates: "Look"
3 min