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
1776
Truong Tran: from "begin again"
3 min
1777
Cathy Song: "April Moon"
2 min
1778
William Moore: "Here in the Time of the Winter ...
1 min
1779
Carrie Williams Clifford: "The New Year"
2 min
1780
Guest Editor Interview: January 2022 Guest Edit...
16 min
1781
Federico García Lorca: "Farewell"
2 min
1782
Karen Head: "Venus de Milo: On Being Rediscovered"
2 min
1783
Reginald Dwayne Betts: "Memorial Hoops"
4 min
1784
Adélia Prado: "Weather Forecast"
3 min
1785
Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"
3 min
1786
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1787
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1788
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1789
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1790
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1791
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1792
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1793
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1794
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1795
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1796
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1797
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1798
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1799
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1800
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min