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