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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Rainer Maria Rilke: “Put Out My Eyes”
2 min
202
Charles Baudelaire: “Obsession”
3 min
203
CM Burroughs: “One Way To Resurrect An Ancestor”
2 min
204
Christian Campbell: “My Grandmother’s Love Lett...
3 min
205
Kyla Marshell: “Somewhere Swimming”
2 min
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Tommye Blount: “Karl Lagerfeld’s line of beauty”
4 min
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Jzl Jmz: “Drenched in Reflection”
2 min
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Adrienne Rich: “This Evening Let’s”
4 min
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Pierre Dupont: “A Serenade”
2 min
210
Abe Louise Young: “Who”
2 min
211
Douglas Kearney: “There’s no ‘sass’ in “dissoci...
2 min
212
Chet’la Sebree: “An End”
3 min
213
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: “Black Pastoral”
3 min
214
Antoinette Brim-Bell: “Insomniac Tankas”
2 min
215
Djuna Barnes: “I’d Have You Think of Me”
3 min
216
Victor Hugo: “Truth”
7 min
217
Keith S. Wilson: “there aren’t enough idioms ab...
2 min
218
Andrea Rexilius: “The Way the Language Was”
2 min
219
Bettina Judd: “A Poem about Home”
3 min
220
DaMaris B. Hill: “Come. Pray. Know”
3 min
221
Anahita Monfared: “The Manic Depressive’s Alpha...
6 min
222
Guest Editor Interview: July 2025 Guest Editor ...
16 min
223
Sappho: “[It was summer when I found you]”
2 min
224
Lord Alfred Douglas: “Wine of Summer”
6 min
225
Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers: “After a Rochester Wedding”
3 min