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
1376
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1377
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1378
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1379
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1380
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1381
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1382
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1383
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1384
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1385
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1386
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1387
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1388
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1389
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1390
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1391
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min
1392
Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"
2 min
1393
William Stobb: "Poem that Wanted to Be a Brueghel"
3 min
1394
Esther Belin: "(De)colonial Therapy"
3 min
1395
Denise Lajimodiere: "Tawkwaymenahnah"
2 min
1396
Kathy Engel: "It would be water"
3 min
1397
Robin Chapman: "The Door-to-Door Saleswoman"
3 min
1398
Lynn Riggs: "Rhythm of Rain"
2 min
1399
Emily Pauline Johnson: "The Lost Lagoon"
2 min
1400
Sean Hill: "The White-headed Woodpecker"
5 min