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.
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Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1452
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1453
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1454
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1455
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1456
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1457
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1458
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1459
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1460
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1461
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1462
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1463
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1464
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1465
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1466
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1467
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1468
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1469
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1470
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1471
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1472
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1473
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1474
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1475
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min