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
151
Adrian Matejka: “16 Bars Poetica”
2 min
152
Kiki Petrosino: From “De Jure Sanguinis”
2 min
153
Fiona Templeton: “Why Say That”
3 min
154
Elisa Gabbert: “The Bridge”
2 min
155
Rainer Maria Rilke: “Put Out My Eyes”
2 min
156
Charles Baudelaire: “Obsession”
3 min
157
CM Burroughs: “One Way To Resurrect An Ancestor”
2 min
158
Christian Campbell: “My Grandmother’s Love Lett...
3 min
159
Kyla Marshell: “Somewhere Swimming”
2 min
160
Tommye Blount: “Karl Lagerfeld’s line of beauty”
4 min
161
Jzl Jmz: “Drenched in Reflection”
2 min
162
Adrienne Rich: “This Evening Let’s”
4 min
163
Pierre Dupont: “A Serenade”
2 min
164
Abe Louise Young: “Who”
2 min
165
Douglas Kearney: “There’s no ‘sass’ in “dissoci...
2 min
166
Chet’la Sebree: “An End”
3 min
167
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: “Black Pastoral”
3 min
168
Antoinette Brim-Bell: “Insomniac Tankas”
2 min
169
Djuna Barnes: “I’d Have You Think of Me”
3 min
170
Victor Hugo: “Truth”
7 min
171
Keith S. Wilson: “there aren’t enough idioms ab...
2 min
172
Andrea Rexilius: “The Way the Language Was”
2 min
173
Bettina Judd: “A Poem about Home”
3 min
174
DaMaris B. Hill: “Come. Pray. Know”
3 min
175
Anahita Monfared: “The Manic Depressive’s Alpha...
6 min