This site exists for one purpose only: to help dispel the ugly and absolutely untrue myth that poetry is boring. Granted, a lot of poetry is boring, but you won't find it here. At Your Daily Poem, you'll find poetry that is touching, funny, provocative, inspiring, uplifting, and surprising. It may punch you in the gut, it may bring tears to your eyes, it may make you laugh out loud, but it most assuredly will not bore you! Visit our home page every day to see a different poem.

Poetry on YDP—by poets living and long dead, famous to completely unknown--is specially selected for accessibility and appeal. Thanks so much for visiting—and remember: a poem a day keeps the doldrums away!

Gail Goepfert, an associate editor at RHINO Poetry since 2013, is the author of four books. The most recent is Self-Portrait with Thorns (Glass Lyre Press, 2022). Since then she has worked collaboratively with Patrice Boyer Claeys on three publications: a pandemic chapbook, Hard Business of Living, and two photoverse books, Honey from the Sun (2020), and Earth Cafeteria (2023). Gail lives in the Chicagoland area; learn more about her at gailgoepfert.com.