Poem-a-Day
Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
1051
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1052
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1053
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1054
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1055
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1056
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1057
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1058
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1059
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1060
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1061
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1062
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1063
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1064
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1065
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1066
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1067
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1068
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1069
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1070
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1071
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1072
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1073
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1074
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1075
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min