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
Adélia Prado: "Weather Forecast"
3 min
1402
Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"
3 min
1403
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1404
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1405
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1406
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1407
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1408
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1409
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1410
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1411
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1412
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1413
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1414
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1415
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1416
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1417
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1418
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1419
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1420
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1421
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1422
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1423
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1424
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1425
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min