2025 Poem-a-Day

Guest Editors

Reading a poem daily is a small act with profound impact. As part of our efforts to bring the transformative power of poetry to a growing readership every day, we’re thrilled to announce the twelve new Guest Editors for Poem-a-Day in 2025, who will each curate a month of poems.

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“The Lonely Sleep Through Winter,” Kemi Alabi

“Snow,” Charles Bertram Johnson

“Autumn, New York, 1999,” Patricia Spears Jones

“Winter Light,” Irena Klepfisz

“To Winter,” Claude McKay

“Winter Solstice,” Ray McNiece

“[The faint shadow of the morning moon?],” Yone Noguchi

“Winter,” Maeng Sa-song

“Never May the Fruit Be Picked,” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Places [III. Winter Sun],” Sara Teasdale

“Sounds of the Winter,” Walt Whitman

“Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today,” Emily Jungmin Yoon

guggenheim
poet-in-residence

“I can’t properly approximate here, in English, how rare it is to be caught signing in the hearing public and not be punished for it, in some small or significant way.”

—From Meg Day’s essay “Ekphrasis in Air: A Bridge, a Beckoning”

Read more about Day’s project as the 2024 Guggenheim Poet-in-Residence, recently featured in the New York Times.

Opportunity for Poets

The Emily Dickinson Museum is accepting proposals for two 2025 programs: Phosphorescence and the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival. Share your voice with our audience! The deadline to submit is Thursday, January 16, 2025. (Sponsored)

poet laureate fellowship

Applications to the 2025 Poet Laureate Fellowship program are now open.

To amplify the essential role poets laureate play in local and state communities throughout the U.S., while recognizing that poets are at the forefront of championing free expression and cultural understanding, the Poet Laureate Fellowships come with a $50,000 stipend and are made possible with thanks to the Mellon Foundation. Eligible laureates can apply by February 24.

translation prizes

Submissions are open for the 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, a $1,000 prize that recognizes a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in 2024, and the 2025 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize, a $10,000 prize given for the translation into English of a significant work of modern Italian poetry. Submit by February 15.