Poetry for the Day

Find a poem for your day. Read classic and contemporary poetry, keep favorite verses close with home screen widgets, and build a daily reading habit. One purchase, with no ads or subscriptions. A WIDER WORLD OF POETRY Discover poetry through a daily rotation that combines PoetryDB with a library of 218 poems included in the app. Read works by Claude McKay, Sara Teasdale, and Amy Lowell alongside contemporary poems by Jatan Mehta and Dave Bonta. READ OFFLINE The included 218-poem collection is available without an internet connection. Browse the contemporary collection from Settings, with complete poems, author credits, original sources, and license details. POETRY ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Bring your daily poem to your iPhone or iPad with widgets in multiple sizes. KEEP THE WORDS THAT STAY WITH YOU Save favorites, revisit your reading history, track your reading streak, and share poems with their source credits. CREATE SOMETHING PERSONAL Describe a topic or feeling and generate an original AI poem on your device using Apple Intelligence. AI generation requires iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, a compatible device, and Apple Intelligence enabled with its model available. Whether you have a minute in the morning or want a quiet moment at the end of the day, Poetry for the Day gives you a reason to return to poetry. Sources and credits: PoetryDB; historical texts from Project Gutenberg; contemporary works by Jatan Mehta and Dave Bonta under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Individual source links, attribution, and license details are available in the app. Open source: https://github.com/ssk42/Poem-of-the-Day