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.

Books
1126
Adélia Prado: "Weather Forecast"
3 min
1127
Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"
3 min
1128
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1129
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1130
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1131
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1132
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1133
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1134
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1135
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1136
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1137
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1138
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1139
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1140
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1141
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1142
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1143
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1144
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1145
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1146
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1147
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1148
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1149
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1150
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min