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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Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1377
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1378
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1379
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1380
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1381
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1382
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1383
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1384
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1385
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1386
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1387
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1388
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1389
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1390
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1391
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1392
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1393
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1394
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1395
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1396
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1397
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1398
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1399
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1400
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min