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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
201
Donna Spruijt-Metz: "Hoof"
3 min
202
Amy Beeder: "My Poisonous Cousin the Pipevine S...
2 min
203
Lynn Riggs: "The Arid Land"
2 min
204
Winnie Lewis Gravitt: "Sippokni Sia"
4 min
205
Randall Mann: "Cold War"
3 min
206
Patrick Phillips: "Galleria Ode"
2 min
207
Katie Ford: "Injury Room"
2 min
208
Guest Editor Interview: November Guest Editor S...
16 min
209
Alexis Aceves Garcia: "The Opposite of Abandonm...
4 min
210
Cristina Rivera Garza: "Saturday, April 17, 201...
5 min
211
E. E. Cummings: "Chansons Innocentes II"
3 min
212
Robert Frost: "In a Disused Graveyard"
3 min
213
Sarah Ghazal Ali: "Matrilineage (umbilicus)"
3 min
214
Maritza N. Estrada: "Audience"
6 min
215
Moncho Alvarado: "An Erasure of Senate Bill 169...
3 min
216
Ruth Ellen Kocher: "Grow"
4 min
217
Paul Hlava Ceballos: "ER S/P GSW"
3 min
218
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Tenebris"
3 min
219
W. B. Yeats: "The Host of the Air"
4 min
220
J. Estanislao Lopez: "The Systemic"
2 min
221
Jonah Mixon-Webster: "Territory"
3 min
222
Emily Lee Luan: "The warble of melting snow is ...
3 min
223
Vickie Vértiz: "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
3 min
224
Adam J. Gellings: "Somewhere Else"
2 min
225
Djuna Barnes: "She Passed This Way"
3 min