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