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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.

Oscar Wilde: "Le Jardin des Tuileries"

3 mins; December 28, 2025

Mary Shelley: "Stanzas" [How like a star you rose upon my life,]

3 mins; December 27, 2025

T. J. Anderson III: "Pollinator"

6 mins; December 26, 2025

Roger Mitchell: "Going Back"

3 mins; December 25, 2025

Elmaz Abinader: "True Metal"

3 mins; December 24, 2025

David Wojahn: "Inauguration Day, 2025"

3 mins; December 23, 2025

Talvikki Ansel: "The Lichens"

5 mins; December 22, 2025

Lewis Carroll: "Christmas Greetings from a Fairy to a Child"

3 mins; December 21, 2025

Donald Justice: "The Artist Orpheus"

4 mins; December 20, 2025

Michael Dickman: "A Good Doctor"

3 mins; December 19, 2025

Dalia Taha, translated by Sara Elkamel: "Enter Terror"

8 mins; December 18, 2025

Aliki Barnstone: "The Sign as You Exit the Artist’s Colony Says ‘The Real World’"

5 mins; December 17, 2025

Yahya Frederickson: "News"

5 mins; December 16, 2025

Chris Abani: "Ash Wednesday"

4 mins; December 15, 2025

Charles Reznikoff: "XX" [A white curtain turning in an open window]

2 mins; December 14, 2025

Walter de la Mare: "A Song of Enchantment"

3 mins; December 13, 2025

H. R. Webster: "Oranges"

5 mins; December 12, 2025

Lawrence Joseph: "The Imagination Completes Its Grand Circuit,"

4 mins; December 11, 2025

Megan Levad Beisner: "The woman who cut and painted my toenails"

4 mins; December 10, 2025

Robert Laidler: "Jr"

4 mins; December 09, 2025

Jennifer Huang: "Gender Euphoria and the Superbloom"

3 mins; December 08, 2025

John Berryman: "Footing Our Cabin’s Lawn, Before the Wood"

3 mins; December 07, 2025

Wallace Stevens: "The Plot Against the Giant"

3 mins; December 06, 2025

Richard Jackson: "A Loud Death"

5 mins; December 05, 2025

Sophia Terazawa: From "September Roams a Vertical Passage"

4 mins; December 04, 2025

Maura Stanton: "A Night in Chicago"

3 mins; December 03, 2025

Arthur Sze: "Qinghai Lake"

4 mins; December 02, 2025

Brian Gyamfi: "The Thing Dead on the Road"

3 mins; December 01, 2025

Guest Editor Interview: December 2025 Guest Editor Khaled Mattawa

18 mins; November 30, 2025

Anonymous, translated by Frances Densmore: "My Dream"

3 mins; November 30, 2025

Marianne Moore: "Dock Rats"

4 mins; November 29, 2025

Nicholas Friedman: "Night Before"

2 mins; November 28, 2025

Casandra López: "Language Studies: ‘Wiishmenok /to love /to like/to want"

4 mins; November 27, 2025

Abigail Chabitnoy: "Everything Exactly as It Seems"

3 mins; November 26, 2025

Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers: "Jessica McClure, After the Well"

5 mins; November 25, 2025

Benjamin Garcia: "Egg Tooth"

3 mins; November 24, 2025

Samuel Alfred Beadle: "Alice"

3 mins; November 23, 2025

Anne Brontë: "Night"

3 mins; November 22, 2025

Lisa Bickmore: "flit [sparrow]"

4 mins; November 21, 2025

Kimberly Blaeser: "Postures of Devotion"

7 mins; November 20, 2025

Annie Wenstrup: "Lodestone"

4 mins; November 19, 2025

Lance Larsen: "To My Daughter's Dead Name"

4 mins; November 18, 2025

Trish Hopkinson: "Clutch"

3 mins; November 17, 2025

Washington Matthews: "Song 'A'"

3 mins; November 16, 2025

Witter Bynner: "Madagascar [Opus 104]"

3 mins; November 15, 2025

Chris Watkins: "The Sonnet in Drag"

3 mins; November 14, 2025

Carol Moldaw: "What We Wanted"

4 mins; November 13, 2025

Erin Marie Lynch: "Poshmark"

3 mins; November 12, 2025

Rob Arnold: "Fourth of July"

3 mins; November 11, 2025

Elise Paschen: "Aperture"

4 mins; November 10, 2025

Alan Seeger: "Liebestod"

5 mins; November 09, 2025

Mary Cornelia Hartshorne: "The Poet"

3 mins; November 08, 2025

Alice Fulton: "Tough Zinnias"

4 mins; November 07, 2025

Landis Grenville: "Homecoming"

4 mins; November 06, 2025

Anthony Borruso: "Some Melodious Plot"

5 mins; November 05, 2025

James Thomas Stevens: "To Hell Gate"

3 mins; November 04, 2025

Anne Marie Rooney: "Abstraction"

3 mins; November 03, 2025

Anonymous: "Lament of a Man for His Son"

3 mins; November 02, 2025

William Rose Benét: "Unforgotten"

3 mins; November 01, 2025

Guest Editor Interview: November 2025 Guest Editor Tacey M. Atsitty

20 mins; October 31, 2025

Avia Tadmor: "Nothing Personal"

4 mins; October 31, 2025

Ameen Animashaun: "The Dance of the Lambs and the Birds"

3 mins; October 30, 2025

Brian Teare: "smallholding"

7 mins; October 29, 2025

Weijia Pan: "Immigrant Song at a Food Truck"

3 mins; October 28, 2025

Jennifer Elise Foerster: "American History"

4 mins; October 27, 2025

James Ephraim McGirt: "A Mystery"

3 mins; October 26, 2025

James Joyce: "III"

3 mins; October 25, 2025

Hieu Minh Nguyen: "SoMa"

3 mins; October 24, 2025

Dujie Tahat: "All-American Ghazal"

3 mins; October 23, 2025

Matthew Gellman: "Conflation"

4 mins; October 22, 2025

Susan Mitchell: "Wolf Moon"

4 mins; October 21, 2025

Sam Sax: "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

4 mins; October 20, 2025

Elias Lönnrot, translated by John Martin Crawford: From the "Kalevala" [Proem]

5 mins; October 19, 2025

Robinson Jeffers: From "The Loving Shepherdess" [Unhappy shepherdess,]

3 mins; October 18, 2025

Sasha Wade: "Del Parto"

4 mins; October 17, 2025

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: "Correspondence with Apologies"

4 mins; October 16, 2025

Monica Ferrell: "Subclinical"

4 mins; October 15, 2025

Kevin Prufer: "Graves"

5 mins; October 14, 2025

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa: "Camay International"

4 mins; October 13, 2025

Louise Bogan: "Cassandra"

3 mins; October 12, 2025

Iris Tree: "The Complex Life"

5 mins; October 11, 2025

Kelan Nee: "Manifesto"

4 mins; October 10, 2025

Victoria Chang: "The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint)"

4 mins; October 09, 2025

Dāshaun Washington: "Half-light"

3 mins; October 08, 2025

Kelli Russell Agodon: "Dementia Is a New Way to be Buddhist"

3 mins; October 07, 2025

Zeina Hashem Beck: "Standup Sonnet"

4 mins; October 06, 2025

Aldous Huxley: "The Burning Wheel"

4 mins; October 05, 2025

Alexander Pushkin: "A Nereid"

3 mins; October 04, 2025

David Roderick: "Message for Jim in Syria [Fall fell wind-wise]"

4 mins; October 03, 2025

Blas Falconer: "This is Not a Horse"

4 mins; October 02, 2025

Hua Xi: "A Bookshelf"

3 mins; October 01, 2025

Rodney Saint-Éloi and Nathalie Handal: From “Chant in the Country of Shadows”

3 mins; September 30, 2025

Guest Editor Interview: October 2025 Guest Editor Rick Barot

15 mins; September 30, 2025

María Auxiliadora Álvarez and Andrés Fernández: "disagreement"

5 mins; September 29, 2025

Herman Melville: "Art,"

3 mins; September 28, 2025

Huy Tưởng and Phương Anh: "final final night"

4 mins; September 27, 2025

Marcelo Morales and Kristin Dykstra: "[Untitled]"

4 mins; September 26, 2025

Antonella Anedda and Gioia Guerzoni: "2022, January"

4 mins; September 25, 2025

Samira Negrouche: "Poem of September 24"

3 mins; September 24, 2025

Nisrine Mbarki Ben-Ayad and Michele Hutchison: "war"

6 mins; September 23, 2025

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