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
1401
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1402
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1403
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1404
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1405
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1406
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1407
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1408
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1409
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1410
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1411
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1412
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1413
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1414
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1415
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1416
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min
1417
Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"
2 min
1418
William Stobb: "Poem that Wanted to Be a Brueghel"
3 min
1419
Esther Belin: "(De)colonial Therapy"
3 min
1420
Denise Lajimodiere: "Tawkwaymenahnah"
2 min
1421
Kathy Engel: "It would be water"
3 min
1422
Robin Chapman: "The Door-to-Door Saleswoman"
3 min
1423
Lynn Riggs: "Rhythm of Rain"
2 min
1424
Emily Pauline Johnson: "The Lost Lagoon"
2 min
1425
Sean Hill: "The White-headed Woodpecker"
5 min