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
1376
t'ai freedom ford: "house hunting as an act of ...
3 min
1377
Luther Hughes: [Like the Japanese cherry blosso...
4 min
1378
Ellen Bass: "Fracture"
3 min
1379
Elizabeth Barnett: "You remember the feeling bu...
2 min
1380
Ladan Osman: "Sun to Void"
4 min
1381
William Cullen Bryant: "Summer Wind"
5 min
1382
Else Lasker-Schüler: "Reconciliation"
2 min
1383
Bernard Ferguson: "awaiting a carriage, any"
3 min
1384
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "The Sunset and the P...
2 min
1385
Omotara James: "A Flair for Language"
4 min
1386
Stephanie Cawley: "Not"
4 min
1387
Marissa Davis: "Ecclesiastes: Thirteen-Year Cic...
3 min
1388
Trumbull Stickney: "At Sainte-Marguerite"
5 min
1389
Anne Reeve Aldrich: "Rose Song"
3 min
1390
Destiny O. Birdsong: "I Go Back to Myself, Apri...
4 min
1391
Kayleb Rae Candrilli: "Daytona 500"
3 min
1392
Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The Understudy"
3 min
1393
Diamond Forde: "Rememory"
4 min
1394
Rajiv Mohabir: "Give Me a Boat That Can Carry Two"
2 min
1395
Guest Editor Interview: August 2022 Guest Edito...
14 min
1396
George Santayana: "Cape Cod"
3 min
1397
Zinaida Gippius: [I seek for rhythmic whisperings]
3 min
1398
Saretta Morgan: from “Consequences upon Arrival”
6 min
1399
Simone White: "the intimacies of what will be c...
5 min
1400
Charles Bernstein: "Why Do You Love the Poem?"
4 min