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
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Adélia Prado: "Weather Forecast"
3 min
1302
Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"
3 min
1303
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1304
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1305
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1306
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1307
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1308
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1309
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1310
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1311
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1312
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1313
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1314
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1315
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1316
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1317
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1318
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1319
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1320
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1321
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1322
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1323
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1324
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1325
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min