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.
1326
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1327
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1328
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1329
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1330
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1331
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1332
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1333
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1334
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1335
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1336
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1337
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1338
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1339
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1340
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1341
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1342
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1343
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1344
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1345
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1346
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1347
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1348
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1349
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1350
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min