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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.

Michelle Bitting: "Richard’s Not Such a Die-Hard Christian After All"

5 mins; April 03, 2026

J. Scott Brownlee: "These Hills"

5 mins; April 02, 2026

Danusha Laméris: "Peonies"

3 mins; April 01, 2026

Kira Tucker: "Precious"

3 mins; March 31, 2026

Guest Editor Interview: April 2026 Guest Editor Dorianne Laux

17 mins; March 31, 2026

Jane Hirshfield: "I speak with the future."

4 mins; March 30, 2026

Padraic Colum: "The Pigeons"

3 mins; March 29, 2026

William Wordsworth: "Persuasion"

4 mins; March 28, 2026

Nikita Deshpande: "Post Partum"

3 mins; March 27, 2026

Derrick Austin: "Audience"

4 mins; March 26, 2026

ire’ne lara silva: "i didn’t eat the sun"

3 mins; March 25, 2026

Dorianne Laux: "Where Is My Friend?"

3 mins; March 24, 2026

Esther Lin: "Origin Story"

3 mins; March 23, 2026

Sherwood Anderson: "A Poet"

2 mins; March 22, 2026

Louise Glück: "Vita Nova"

4 mins; March 21, 2026

Todd Turnidge: "Moonlight Romantica"

3 mins; March 20, 2026

January Gill O'Neil: "Honeycrisp"

3 mins; March 19, 2026

Vincent Rendoni: "1985"

3 mins; March 18, 2026

Tiana Clark: "Poem Beginning in Berlin, Ending in Boston, and Bookended by Rilke"

5 mins; March 17, 2026

Gregory Orr: "[And isn't everything risk?]"

3 mins; March 16, 2026

Bliss Carman: "Low Tide on Grand Pré"

5 mins; March 15, 2026

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "A Dozen Cocktails Please"

4 mins; March 14, 2026

George Bilgere: "After Escher"

4 mins; March 13, 2026

Michael Kleber-Diggs: "Lupines in a Yard in San Antonio, Texas"

3 mins; March 12, 2026

Leila Chatti: "The World Is Too Much With Us"

4 mins; March 11, 2026

Reginald Dwayne Betts: "Petrichor"

4 mins; March 10, 2026

Pádraig Ó Tuama: "Our Lady of the Garden"

3 mins; March 09, 2026

Martial, translated by Henry Howard: "The Means to Attain Happy Life"

3 mins; March 08, 2026

Genevieve Taggard: "Going Somewhere"

3 mins; March 07, 2026

Angela Narciso Torres: "Late Bird"

3 mins; March 06, 2026

AE Hines: "Peace Treaty"

4 mins; March 05, 2026

Daniel B. Summerhill: "Boplicity or Jimmy Throws a Houseparty for Huey Newton & Everybody Shows Up with Their Instrument Instead"

4 mins; March 04, 2026

Jenny George: "Touching and Being Touched"

2 mins; March 03, 2026

Maggie Smith: "This human life"

3 mins; March 02, 2026

Leonora Speyer: "She says, being forbidden:"

3 mins; March 01, 2026

Horace Gregory: "Interior: The Suburbs"

4 mins; February 28, 2026

Guest Editor Interview: March 2026 Guest Editor Danusha Laméris

17 mins; February 28, 2026

Salem al-Okaly, translated by Khaled Mattawa: "To the Here and Now"

5 mins; February 27, 2026

Sanam Sheriff: "The Emperor Pats His Lips with a Napkin"

4 mins; February 26, 2026

Mary-Alice Daniel: "Ancestor Syndrome"

5 mins; February 25, 2026

Kwame Dawes: "Window Art"

3 mins; February 24, 2026

Ladan Osman: "[ ]"

4 mins; February 23, 2026

Pindar, translated by Ernest Myers: "For Asopichos of Orchomenos, Winner in the Boys’ Short Foot-Race"

5 mins; February 22, 2026

Robert Bridges: "[The evening darkens over]"

3 mins; February 21, 2026

Siwar Masannat: From “With Al-Hudoud” [From above, stolen]

3 mins; February 20, 2026

Ashaki M. Jackson: “Four planets (but no moon) will be visible to the naked eye tonight.”

3 mins; February 19, 2026

Rabha Ashry: "the art of losing"

4 mins; February 18, 2026

Rigoberto González: "Lessons at the Legendary Institute for Yarn Spinning"

2 mins; February 17, 2026

Sharan Strange: "Two-Faced Memory"

4 mins; February 16, 2026

Countee Cullen: "Bright Bindings"

3 mins; February 15, 2026

Sappho, translated by Bliss Carman: "[I seek and desire]

3 mins; February 14, 2026

David Campos: "Kiss. Baptism."

4 mins; February 13, 2026

Wana Udobang: "Dissonance"

3 mins; February 12, 2026

Tyree Daye: "Again"

3 mins; February 11, 2026

Gabeba Baderoon: "Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain"

8 mins; February 10, 2026

Sadia Hassan: "Anti-Elegy"

3 mins; February 09, 2026

Leonard Bacon: "Critic"

3 mins; February 08, 2026

Bryher: "In Exile"

3 mins; February 07, 2026

Niki Herd: "Monkeys & Shows"

5 mins; February 06, 2026

Matthew Shenoda: "The Pigeons Rose from the Floor of the Earth; A Clamoring of Wings to Disturb the Silence"

4 mins; February 05, 2026

Tara Betts: "At the BBQ Spot"

3 mins; February 04, 2026

Mahtem Shiferraw: "Beastly"

3 mins; February 03, 2026

A. Van Jordan: "1999"

4 mins; February 02, 2026

Langston Hughes: "Sun Song"

3 mins; February 01, 2026

Dulcie Deamer: "The Dreamer"

5 mins; January 31, 2026

Guest Editor Interview: February 2026 Guest Editor Chris Abani

26 mins; January 31, 2026

Marlanda Dekine: "Memory Poem"

3 mins; January 30, 2026

K. A. Hays: “‘Artificial neurons can be trained to kill humans without humans overseeing’”

4 mins; January 29, 2026

Shara Lessley: "Sisyphus"

2 mins; January 28, 2026

Canese Jarboe: “Alternate Endings to Shania Twain’s 'That Don’t Impress Me Much' Music Video”

4 mins; January 27, 2026

Kimberly Quiogue Andrews: "Poem in Which the Poet Ventriloquizes the Beloved"

4 mins; January 26, 2026

Henry Howard: "So Cruel Prison"

7 mins; January 25, 2026

H. P. Lovecraft: From "Fungi of Yuggoth" [XIV. Star-winds]

3 mins; January 24, 2026

Amy M. Alvarez: "Burn Out"

3 mins; January 23, 2026

Iain Haley Pollock: "[And I return to the field]"

4 mins; January 22, 2026

Natalie Scenters-Zapico: "Aura"

4 mins; January 21, 2026

Elizabeth Bradfield: "The Teeth on My Wrist"

6 mins; January 20, 2026

Katrina Vandenberg: "Tomatoes"

4 mins; January 19, 2026

Frank Horne: "Youth"

2 mins; January 18, 2026

Marie Ponsot: "Rain All Night, Paris"

3 mins; January 17, 2026

A. L. Nielsen: "Consensus"

6 mins; January 16, 2026

Rebecca Gayle Howell: "How Will I Know You" [For months]

3 mins; January 15, 2026

Todd Davis: "How She Heard It"

3 mins; January 14, 2026

Lindsay Bernal: "The Laundresses"

4 mins; January 13, 2026

Tim Earley: "Vacation Bible School"

4 mins; January 12, 2026

Samuel Beckett: "Whoroscope"

7 mins; January 11, 2026

E. E. Cummings: From "Puella Mea" [Through the young and awkward hours]

3 mins; January 10, 2026

Adam Giannelli: "Alliterative Autobiography"

5 mins; January 09, 2026

Jenny Johnson: "Queer Trivia Night"

6 mins; January 08, 2026

Jacob Shores-Argüello: "The Names of Grasses"

4 mins; January 07, 2026

Sara Nicholson: "What Ails Me"

3 mins; January 06, 2026

Gary Jackson: "Chickens"

3 mins; January 05, 2026

W. H. Auden: "II" [Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.]

4 mins; January 04, 2026

André Fontainas, translated by Jethro Bithell: "Desires"

3 mins; January 03, 2026

J. Bailey Hutchinson: "Megaloceros"

4 mins; January 02, 2026

Austin Araujo: "Burning Candle"

3 mins; January 01, 2026

Carlina Duan: "I Face East (Ars Poetica)"

3 mins; December 31, 2025

Guest Editor Interview: January 2026 Guest Editor Geffrey Davis

14 mins; December 31, 2025

Sara Abou Rashed: "Gaza I"

3 mins; December 30, 2025

Deema K. Shehabi: "Solstice Pantoum"

4 mins; December 29, 2025

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