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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Reginald Dwayne Betts: "Memorial Hoops"
4 min
1327
Adélia Prado: "Weather Forecast"
3 min
1328
Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"
3 min
1329
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1330
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1331
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1332
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1333
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1334
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1335
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1336
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1337
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1338
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1339
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1340
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1341
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1342
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1343
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1344
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1345
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1346
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1347
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1348
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1349
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1350
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min