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.
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Reginald Dwayne Betts: "Memorial Hoops"
4 min
1177
Adélia Prado: "Weather Forecast"
3 min
1178
Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"
3 min
1179
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1180
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1181
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1182
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1183
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1184
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1185
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1186
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1187
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1188
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1189
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1190
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1191
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1192
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1193
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1194
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1195
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1196
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1197
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1198
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1199
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1200
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min