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!

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!

Estella Lauter began writing poetry in the 70s as a means of keeping the parts of her life as a mother, wife, professor, commuter, traveler, writer, sailor and woodland hermit together. In retirement on the Niagara Escarpment with her husband, she has turned to poetry to make sense of the world. She recently published two chapbooks with Finishing Line Press and tied for first place in the 2009 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Contest of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. With grandchildren in Iowa and California, she still spends a lot of time on the road. 

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