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.
1
Wallace Stevens: "The Plot Against the Giant"
3 min
2
Richard Jackson: "A Loud Death"
5 min
3
Sophia Terazawa: From "September Roams a Vertic...
3 min
4
Maura Stanton: "A Night in Chicago"
3 min
5
Arthur Sze: "Qinghai Lake"
3 min
6
Brian Gyamfi: "The Thing Dead on the Road"
2 min
7
Anonymous, translated by Frances Densmore: "My ...
2 min
8
Guest Editor Interview: December 2025 Guest Edi...
18 min
9
Marianne Moore: "Dock Rats"
4 min
10
Nicholas Friedman: "Night Before"
2 min
11
Casandra López: "Language Studies: ‘Wiishmenok ...
3 min
12
Abigail Chabitnoy: "Everything Exactly as It Se...
3 min
13
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers: "Jessica McClure, Aft...
4 min
14
Benjamin Garcia: "Egg Tooth"
3 min
15
Samuel Alfred Beadle: "Alice"
3 min
16
Anne Brontë: "Night"
3 min
17
Lisa Bickmore: "flit [sparrow]"
3 min
18
Kimberly Blaeser: "Postures of Devotion"
7 min
19
Annie Wenstrup: "Lodestone"
4 min
20
Lance Larsen: "To My Daughter's Dead Name"
3 min
21
Trish Hopkinson: "Clutch"
3 min
22
Washington Matthews: "Song 'A'"
3 min
23
Witter Bynner: "Madagascar [Opus 104]"
2 min
24
Chris Watkins: "The Sonnet in Drag"
3 min
25
Carol Moldaw: "What We Wanted"
4 min