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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Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1377
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1378
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1379
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1380
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1381
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1382
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1383
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1384
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1385
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1386
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1387
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1388
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1389
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1390
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1391
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1392
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1393
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1394
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1395
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1396
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1397
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1398
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1399
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1400
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min