The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce twelve new Poem-a-Day guest editors who will each curate a month of poems in 2023. The guest editors, who live in ten different states across the country, are all award-winning poets who represent wide-ranging editorial perspectives. Poem-a-Day is the original and only digital series publishing new poems by today’s poets and reaches 800,000+ readers each day on Poets.org, via email and podcast, and across social media. The series is one of the largest platforms for poets’ new work. Subscribe to the free email version of Poem-a-Day at poets.org/poem-a-day.

January: Tyree Daye

February: Patricia Smith

March: Diane Seuss

April (National Poetry Month): Ada Limón 

May: Hieu Minh Nguyen

June: Brian Teare 

July: John Lee Clark

August: Divya Victor

September: Eunsong Kim 

October: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 

November: Steve Bellin-Oka

December: Claudia Rankine 



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