diff --git a/Sources/Saga/Saga+AtomFeed.swift b/Sources/Saga/Saga+AtomFeed.swift
index 4a1f742..25e94e6 100644
--- a/Sources/Saga/Saga+AtomFeed.swift
+++ b/Sources/Saga/Saga+AtomFeed.swift
@@ -19,12 +19,13 @@ public extension Saga {
   ///   - title: The title of the feed, usually your site title. Example: Loopwerk.io.
   ///   - author: The author of the articles.
   ///   - baseURL: The base URL of your website, for example https://www.loopwerk.io.
+  ///   - itemTitle: An optional function which takes an `Item` and returns the title to use for its entry. Defaults to the item's `title`. Useful when feed titles should differ from the parsed title, for example when applying an SEO title policy or stripping Markdown emphasis markers.
   ///   - summary: An optional function which takes an `Item` and returns its summary.
   ///   - image: An optional function which takes an `Item` and returns its image URL (absolute or relative to baseURL).
   ///   - dateKeyPath: A keypath to the date property to use for the <updated> field. Defaults to `\.lastModified`.
   /// - Returns: A function which takes a rendering context, and returns a string.
   @preconcurrency
-  static func atomFeed<Context: AtomContext>(title: String, author: String? = nil, baseURL: URL, summary: (@Sendable (Item<Context.M>) -> String?)? = nil, image: (@Sendable (Item<Context.M>) -> String?)? = nil, dateKeyPath: KeyPath<Item<Context.M>, Date> = \.lastModified) -> (@Sendable (_ context: Context) -> String) {
+  static func atomFeed<Context: AtomContext>(title: String, author: String? = nil, baseURL: URL, itemTitle: (@Sendable (Item<Context.M>) -> String)? = nil, summary: (@Sendable (Item<Context.M>) -> String?)? = nil, image: (@Sendable (Item<Context.M>) -> String?)? = nil, dateKeyPath: KeyPath<Item<Context.M>, Date> = \.lastModified) -> (@Sendable (_ context: Context) -> String) {
     nonisolated(unsafe) let RFC3339_DF = ISO8601DateFormatter()
     nonisolated(unsafe) let dateKeyPath = dateKeyPath
 
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ public extension Saga {
         idElement.stringValue = baseURL.appendingPathComponent(item.url).absoluteString
 
         entryElement.addChild(idElement)
-        entryElement.addChild(XMLElement(name: "title", stringValue: item.title))
+        entryElement.addChild(XMLElement(name: "title", stringValue: itemTitle?(item) ?? item.title))
         entryElement.addChild(XMLElement(name: "updated", stringValue: RFC3339_DF.string(from: item[keyPath: dateKeyPath])))
 
         if let summary, let summaryString = summary(item) {
diff --git a/Sources/Saga/Saga.docc/Guides/CustomFeedFormats.md b/Sources/Saga/Saga.docc/Guides/CustomFeedFormats.md
index 02b6f6d..d2dba9c 100644
--- a/Sources/Saga/Saga.docc/Guides/CustomFeedFormats.md
+++ b/Sources/Saga/Saga.docc/Guides/CustomFeedFormats.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Build your own feed renderer, using JSON Feed as an example.
 
 ## Overview
 
-Saga ships with a built-in ``Saga/atomFeed(title:author:baseURL:summary:image:dateKeyPath:)`` renderer, but you can create renderers for any feed format. This guide walks you through building a [JSON Feed](https://www.jsonfeed.org) renderer to show the pattern.
+Saga ships with a built-in ``Saga/atomFeed(title:author:baseURL:itemTitle:summary:image:dateKeyPath:)`` renderer, but you can create renderers for any feed format. This guide walks you through building a [JSON Feed](https://www.jsonfeed.org) renderer to show the pattern.
 
 A renderer is a function that returns a `@Sendable (Context) -> String` closure — the same signature used by the built-in Atom renderer. The closure receives a rendering context with the items and output path, and returns the feed content as a string.
 
diff --git a/Tests/SagaTests/SagaTests.swift b/Tests/SagaTests/SagaTests.swift
index 9169482..c830dda 100644
--- a/Tests/SagaTests/SagaTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/SagaTests/SagaTests.swift
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ struct TaggedMetadata: Metadata {
   let tags: [String]
 }
 
+struct FeedContext: AtomContext {
+  let items: [Item<EmptyMetadata>]
+  let outputPath: Path
+}
+
 struct WrittenPage: Equatable {
   let destination: Path
   let content: String
@@ -905,4 +910,29 @@ final class SagaTests: XCTestCase, @unchecked Sendable {
     XCTAssertEqual(artList?.content, "art:1")
     XCTAssertEqual(articlesList?.content, "articles:1")
   }
+
+  func testAtomFeedEntryTitlesUseItemTitleOverride() throws {
+    let context = FeedContext(
+      items: [
+        Item(title: "A _great_ title", body: "<p>body</p>", date: Date(timeIntervalSince1970: 1_704_106_800), metadata: EmptyMetadata()),
+      ],
+      outputPath: "feed.xml"
+    )
+
+    // Default behavior is unchanged: the entry title is the item's title.
+    let defaultFeed = Saga.atomFeed(
+      title: "Test Site",
+      baseURL: URL(string: "https://example.com")!
+    )(context)
+    XCTAssertTrue(defaultFeed.contains("<title>A _great_ title</title>"))
+
+    // itemTitle lets a site apply its own title policy per entry.
+    let customFeed = Saga.atomFeed(
+      title: "Test Site",
+      baseURL: URL(string: "https://example.com")!,
+      itemTitle: { $0.title.replacingOccurrences(of: "_", with: "") }
+    )(context)
+    XCTAssertTrue(customFeed.contains("<title>A great title</title>"))
+    XCTAssertTrue(customFeed.contains("<title>Test Site</title>"), "The feed-level title is unaffected.")
+  }
 }