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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Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1252
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1253
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1254
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1255
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1256
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1257
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1258
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1259
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1260
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1261
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1262
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1263
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1264
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1265
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1266
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1267
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1268
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1269
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1270
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1271
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1272
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1273
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1274
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1275
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min