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