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.
1276
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1277
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1278
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1279
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1280
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1281
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1282
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1283
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1284
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1285
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1286
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1287
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1288
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1289
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1290
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1291
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1292
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1293
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1294
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1295
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1296
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1297
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1298
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1299
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1300
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min