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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.

Jorge Galán and Janet Hendrickson: "Winter"

5 mins; September 22, 2025

Sir Walter Scott: From "The Lady of the Lake" Canto I

5 mins; September 21, 2025

John Iremil Teodoro and Luisa A. Igloria: “Lingården Äldreboende Lenhovda”

5 mins; September 19, 2025

David Cruz and Anthony Geist: “Immigrants”

3 mins; September 18, 2025

Shivanee Ramlochan: “The Meaning of Trees”

4 mins; September 17, 2025

Rolando Kattan, Katherine M. Hedeen, and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez: “Two-Blooded”

4 mins; September 16, 2025

José Mármol and Eileen O’Connor: “Another April, Too Cruel”

7 mins; September 15, 2025

James Sacré and Youmna Chamieh: “One day writing will become too difficult.”

2 mins; September 14, 2025

Margaret Fuller: “Freedom and Truth”

2 mins; September 13, 2025

Tu Fu translated by Marilyn Chin: “Song of My House Being Battered by the Autumn Winds”

7 mins; September 12, 2025

Bejan Matur and Eleanor Wright: “As Though”

3 mins; September 11, 2025

Najwan Darwish and Kareem James Abu-Zeid: “In this Labyrinth”

4 mins; September 10, 2025

Immanuel Mifsud and Ruth Ward: “Stone”

4 mins; September 09, 2025

Yolanda Castaño and Samantha Schnee: “Wheel of Fortune”

5 mins; September 08, 2025

Damir Šodan and James Meetze: “Poetry in Small Language”

4 mins; September 07, 2025

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: “Sonnet LIX: Love’s Last Gift”

3 mins; September 06, 2025

Yaxkin Melchy Ramos and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo: “Capybara Hot Springs”

8 mins; September 05, 2025

Andrea Cote and Craig Epplin: “Somber Bull”

4 mins; September 04, 2025

Tomica Bajsić and Nina Bajsić: “When You Hit Yourself with an Axe While Chopping Wood”

3 mins; September 03, 2025

Anthony Joseph: “Empires”

2 mins; September 02, 2025

Katerina Iliopoulou and Jackson Watson: “Cape Tenaron”

4 mins; September 01, 2025

Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa: “The Wicked Lady”

2 mins; August 31, 2025

Lola Ridge: From “IV. The Stone” [The morning came like primroses]:

5 mins; August 30, 2025

Guest Editor Interview: September 2025 Guest Editor Nathalie Handal

14 mins; August 30, 2025

Léonie Adams: “Early Waking”

3 mins; August 29, 2025

Geoffrey Brock: “Goodbye”

3 mins; August 28, 2025

Atsuro Riley: “We Be Ludere”

2 mins; August 27, 2025

Ari Banias: “Task”

3 mins; August 26, 2025

Brian Tierney: “Catering”

4 mins; August 25, 2025

Cate Marvin: “The Truth”

3 mins; August 24, 2025

Sharon Olds: “Boxer Aria”

4 mins; August 23, 2025

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy: “The Wolves”

4 mins; August 22, 2025

Wayne Miller: “Theological”

2 mins; August 21, 2025

Armen Davoudian: “Hot Springs”

3 mins; August 20, 2025

Paul Tran: “Eros”

5 mins; August 19, 2025

Aaron Smith: “I’m Dating a Man Who’s Married”

3 mins; August 18, 2025

D. A. Powell: “Rewilding”

3 mins; August 17, 2025

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Fate”

5 mins; August 16, 2025

Alfred Kreymborg: “Those Everlasting Blues”

4 mins; August 15, 2025

Sandra Lim: “Cattiveria”

3 mins; August 14, 2025

Noah Warren: “Shuttle”

4 mins; August 13, 2025

Christian Gullette: “The Fates”

3 mins; August 12, 2025

Natalie Shapero: “Hansel or Gretel”

3 mins; August 11, 2025

Michael Dumanis: “Sehnsucht”

4 mins; August 10, 2025

Stanley Kunitz: “Passing Through”

4 mins; August 09, 2025

Li Bai: “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter,” translated by Ezra Pound

4 mins; August 08, 2025

Miguel Murphy: “August”

3 mins; August 07, 2025

Jesse Nathan: “Panhandle”

3 mins; August 06, 2025

Leonel Sánchez Lopez: “What the Birds Do”

2 mins; August 05, 2025

Saeed Jones: “Self-Portrait as Hereboy, Sethe’s Dog in Beloved”

2 mins; August 04, 2025

Andrea Cohen: “Pastime ”

2 mins; August 03, 2025

Gertrude Stein: “Tender Buttons [Breakfast]”

9 mins; August 02, 2025

Vachel Lindsay: “Meeting Ourselves”

3 mins; August 01, 2025

Taylor Byas: “I begin the day thinking”

2 mins; July 31, 2025

Samantha Thornhill: “38. Shedding the Old”

3 mins; July 30, 2025

Guest Editor Interview: August 2025 Guest Editor Randall Mann

21 mins; July 30, 2025

Lauren K. Alleyne: “Gift”

3 mins; July 29, 2025

Mary Jo Bang: “Madonna Overview”

4 mins; July 28, 2025

L. Lamar Wilson: “Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway”

5 mins; July 27, 2025

Philip Levine: “Breath”

5 mins; July 26, 2025

Else Lasker-Schüler: “Sphinx”

3 mins; July 25, 2025

Jeffrey Pethybridge: “Note on Method”

5 mins; July 24, 2025

Adrian Matejka: “16 Bars Poetica”

2 mins; July 23, 2025

Kiki Petrosino: From “De Jure Sanguinis”

3 mins; July 22, 2025

Fiona Templeton: “Why Say That”

3 mins; July 21, 2025

Elisa Gabbert: “The Bridge”

3 mins; July 20, 2025

Rainer Maria Rilke: “Put Out My Eyes”

3 mins; July 19, 2025

Charles Baudelaire: “Obsession”

4 mins; July 18, 2025

CM Burroughs: “One Way To Resurrect An Ancestor”

2 mins; July 17, 2025

Christian Campbell: “My Grandmother’s Love Letters”

4 mins; July 16, 2025

Kyla Marshell: “Somewhere Swimming”

2 mins; July 15, 2025

Tommye Blount: “Karl Lagerfeld’s line of beauty”

4 mins; July 14, 2025

Jzl Jmz: “Drenched in Reflection”

3 mins; July 13, 2025

Adrienne Rich: “This Evening Let’s”

4 mins; July 12, 2025

Pierre Dupont: “A Serenade”

3 mins; July 11, 2025

Abe Louise Young: “Who”

3 mins; July 10, 2025

Douglas Kearney: “There’s no ‘sass’ in “dissociation.”

2 mins; July 09, 2025

Chet’la Sebree: “An End”

3 mins; July 08, 2025

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: “Black Pastoral”

4 mins; July 07, 2025

Antoinette Brim-Bell: “Insomniac Tankas”

3 mins; July 06, 2025

Djuna Barnes: “I’d Have You Think of Me”

3 mins; July 05, 2025

Victor Hugo: “Truth”

7 mins; July 04, 2025

Keith S. Wilson: “there aren’t enough idioms about the stars”

2 mins; July 03, 2025

Andrea Rexilius: “The Way the Language Was”

2 mins; July 02, 2025

Bettina Judd: “A Poem about Home”

3 mins; July 01, 2025

DaMaris B. Hill: “Come. Pray. Know”

3 mins; June 30, 2025

Anahita Monfared: “The Manic Depressive’s Alphabet”

6 mins; June 29, 2025

Guest Editor Interview: July 2025 Guest Editor Khadijah Queen

17 mins; June 29, 2025

Sappho: “[It was summer when I found you]”

3 mins; June 28, 2025

Lord Alfred Douglas: “Wine of Summer”

7 mins; June 27, 2025

Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers: “After a Rochester Wedding”

3 mins; June 26, 2025

francine j. harris: “There are inanimate things out there loving each other”

3 mins; June 25, 2025

DéLana R. A. Dameron: “When Mama died, I lost my air”

3 mins; June 24, 2025

C. Russell Price: “I Decide to Tell Ghost Cowboy My Intentions”

2 mins; June 23, 2025

Yalie Saweda Kamara: “Trim”

2 mins; June 23, 2025

Louise Bogan: “The Alchemist”

3 mins; June 21, 2025

Mikhail Kuzmin: “Night Was Done”

3 mins; June 21, 2025

Hílda Davis: “Pilate ponders where she belongs”

3 mins; June 20, 2025

Jari Bradley: “You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See”

4 mins; June 19, 2025

Airea D. Matthews: “Altitude”

3 mins; June 18, 2025

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