Poem-a-Day - Where Poem-a-Day takes us each morning

Dear Reader,

I’m heartened each morning when I open my Poem-a-Day email, envisioning thousands of readers around the world simultaneously encountering a new poem. “Poetry is the language that sits really close to feelings that defy language,” writes Academy Chancellor Tracy K. Smith. “I take solace in the fact that it’s poems that we turn to in big moments of change.” 

Today, I’m asking devoted Poem-a-Day readers like you to ensure that the shared experience of reading a newly published poem each morning remains free and accessible to a growing audience. 

Please make a special contribution to help underwrite this one-of-a-kind series. Supporters like you make Poem-a-Day possible!

Poem-a-Day is the only daily series publishing new work by 260 poets each year—an anthology’s worth of poems now, incredibly, reaching a community of 320,000 subscribers. 

This December, we need to raise $150,000 to sustain and grow Poem-a-Day in the year ahead. Your financial support is critical both to our paying the poets published in Poem-a-Day and producing and delivering their poems to readers free-of-charge. Donate today.

Thank you for helping us share poems and for being a part of the Poem-a-Day community.

With hope,