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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Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1352
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1353
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1354
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1355
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1356
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1357
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1358
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1359
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1360
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1361
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1362
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1363
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1364
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1365
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1366
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1367
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1368
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1369
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1370
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1371
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1372
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1373
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min
1374
Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"
2 min
1375
William Stobb: "Poem that Wanted to Be a Brueghel"
3 min