These poems were disseminated in the American Academy of Poetry's Poem-a-Day newsletter in September, October and November.
Art by Herman Melville
This Is Not a Horse by Blas Falconer
Dementia Is a New Way to Be Buddhist by Kelli Russell Agodon
Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges by Sam Sax
Conflation by Matthew Gellman
All-American Ghazal by Dujie Tahat
SoMa by Hieu Minh Nguyen
The Sonnet in Drag by Chris Watkins
Note: I think Watkins' poem is so witty that I'm taking the liberty of inserting it here:
The Sonnet in Drag
She’s charismatic, mistress of the brag.
Who turns a look like hers? The highest tuck
you could have—you might say she’s enjambed. Her wig
don’t ever slip. Her lip sync’s never slack.
She struts around in five-inch heels and lines
her syllables in red lip liner. Looks
like one of Shakespeare’s girls. And boy she rhymes
like he’s inside her—thumbing through her book.
You’ll want to read like her. You’ll want to wear
hip pads beneath your quatrains. Stuff big words
in every line to burst the iamb’s brassiere.
To be Elizabethan, queen of bards.
But can you bring it like a bottom from the top—
from the title to your couplet’s death drop?
Copyright © 2025 by Chris Watkins. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on November 14, 2025, by the Academy of American Poets.
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