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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A. L. Nielsen: "Consensus"
6 min
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Rebecca Gayle Howell: "How Will I Know You" [Fo...
3 min
128
Todd Davis: "How She Heard It"
3 min
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Lindsay Bernal: "The Laundresses"
4 min
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Tim Earley: "Vacation Bible School"
4 min
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Samuel Beckett: "Whoroscope"
7 min
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E. E. Cummings: From "Puella Mea" [Through the ...
2 min
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Adam Giannelli: "Alliterative Autobiography"
5 min
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Jenny Johnson: "Queer Trivia Night"
6 min
135
Jacob Shores-Argüello: "The Names of Grasses"
3 min
136
Sara Nicholson: "What Ails Me"
3 min
137
Gary Jackson: "Chickens"
3 min
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W. H. Auden: "II" [Doom is dark and deeper than...
3 min
139
André Fontainas, translated by Jethro Bithell: ...
3 min
140
J. Bailey Hutchinson: "Megaloceros"
3 min
141
Austin Araujo: "Burning Candle"
3 min
142
Guest Editor Interview: January 2026 Guest Edit...
14 min
143
Carlina Duan: "I Face East (Ars Poetica)"
3 min
144
Sara Abou Rashed: "Gaza I"
3 min
145
Deema K. Shehabi: "Solstice Pantoum"
3 min
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Oscar Wilde: "Le Jardin des Tuileries"
2 min
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Mary Shelley: "Stanzas" [How like a star you ro...
3 min
148
T. J. Anderson III: "Pollinator"
5 min
149
Roger Mitchell: "Going Back"
3 min
150
Elmaz Abinader: "True Metal"
3 min