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
1426
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1427
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1428
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1429
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1430
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1431
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1432
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1433
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1434
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1435
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1436
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1437
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1438
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1439
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1440
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1441
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1442
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1443
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1444
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1445
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1446
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1447
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1448
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1449
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min
1450
Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"
2 min