Poem-a-Day

The only daily poetry series publishing new work by today’s poets.

Poem-a-day

With shadowy pen I write,
Till time be done,
Good news of some strange light,
Some far off sun.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on October 18, 2026, by the Academy of American Poets.

Title	Author	Date
Any Common Desolation	Ellen Bass	11/18/2016
Glacier National Park and the Elegy	Prageeta Sharma	11/17/2016
Lunchtime with Woodwinds	Alli Warren	11/16/2016
Song as Abridged Thesis of George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature	Major Jackson	11/15/2016
Wildfire Moon (Summer, L.A. 2016)	Carol Muske-Dukes	11/14/2016
Hermes of the Ways	H.D.	11/13/2016
Ode to Psyche	John Keats	11/12/2016
this sad little enclave of horses	Julian Talamantez Brolaski	11/11/2016
House of Père Lacroix	Tyler Mills	11/10/2016
Moon for Our Daughters	Annie Finch	11/09/2016