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Poem-A-Day

Throughout April and partway into May, Poets.org will send one new poem to your inbox each day to celebrate National Poetry Month. The poems have been selected from new books published this spring.

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May 6 Orion
by Susan Gevirtz
What you make on Orion...
May 5 After John Donne's "To his Mistress Going to Bed"
by Lisa Russ Spaar
What might she send — a wet sleeve...
May 4 WHERE?
by Kenneth Patchen
There's a place the man always say...
May 3 Now that no one looking
by Adam Kirsch
Now that no one looking at the night...
May 2 A Windmill Makes A Statement
by Cate Marvin
You think I like to stand all day, all night...
May 1 May Day
by Phillis Levin
I've decided to waste my life again...
April 30 Shampoo & Sponge Bath
by J. W. Marshall
It takes a small face...
April 29 Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me
by John Rybicki
There's this movie I am watching...
April 28 Stupid University Job
by Sharon Mesmer
Your loveliest of sway-backs...
April 27 In cold spring air
by Reginald Gibbons
In cold...
April 26 Untitled [To see this evil from its core]
by Philip Lamantia
To see this evil from its core...
April 25 Secret History
by Connie Voisine
It was the summer of Chandra Levy, disappearing...
April 24 Balance
by Adam Zagajewski
translated by Clare Cavanagh
I watched the arctic landscape from above...
April 23 After the Movie
by Marie Howe
My friend Michael and I are walking home arguing about the movie...
April 22 Sleep Door
by Kazim Ali
a light knocking on the sleep door...
April 21 Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh XXI Dynasty
by Thomas James
My body holds its shape. The genius is intact...
April 20 Learning to Speak
by Liz Rosenberg
She was the quietest thing I'd ever seen...
April 19 A Reactionary Tale
by Linh Dihn
I was a caring husband. I bought socks for my family...
April 18 from "Ferrum"
by M. NourbeSe Philip
s no s     laves s     in nest/s with...
April 17 Cherry Tomatoes
by Sandra Beasley
Little bastards of vine...
April 16 Father's Day
by James Tate
My daughter has lived overseas for a number...
April 15 Belarusian I
by Valzhyna Mort
translated by Franz Wright and Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright
even our mothers have no idea how we were born...
April 14 Compulsively Allergic to the Truth
by Jeffrey McDaniel
I'm sorry I was late...
April 13 Jam
by Karen Chase
Our love is not the short...
April 12 Alpha Zulu
by Gary Lilley
I know more people dead than people alive...
April 11 Gnosis
by Theodore Worozbyt
Turns out the radiologist didn't know...
April 10 Pastoral
by Jennifer Chang
Something in the field is...
April 9 A Pot of Tea
by Richard Kenney
Loose leaves in a metal ball...
April 8 Line Poem
by Caroline Knox
Long jetty, long shell-racked jetty, cracked warped planks...
April 7 Just
by Alan Shapiro
after the downpour, in the early evening...
April 6 The Assignation
by Ciaran Carson
I think I must have told him my name was Juliette...
April 5 Terzanelle: Manzanar Riot
by Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan
This is a poem with missing details...
April 4 Assault to Abjury
by Raymond McDaniel
Rain commenced, and wind did...
April 3 The Origin
by Jane Mead
of what happened is not in language...
April 2 The Charm
by Robert Creeley
My children are, to me...
April 1 Secret History
by Charles Simic
Of the light in my room...
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