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