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.
1401
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1402
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1403
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1404
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1405
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1406
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1407
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1408
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1409
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1410
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1411
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1412
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1413
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1414
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1415
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1416
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1417
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1418
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1419
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1420
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1421
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1422
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1423
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1424
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1425
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min