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
1451
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1452
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1453
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1454
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1455
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1456
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1457
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1458
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1459
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1460
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1461
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1462
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1463
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1464
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1465
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1466
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1467
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min
1468
Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"
2 min
1469
William Stobb: "Poem that Wanted to Be a Brueghel"
3 min
1470
Esther Belin: "(De)colonial Therapy"
3 min
1471
Denise Lajimodiere: "Tawkwaymenahnah"
2 min
1472
Kathy Engel: "It would be water"
3 min
1473
Robin Chapman: "The Door-to-Door Saleswoman"
3 min
1474
Lynn Riggs: "Rhythm of Rain"
2 min
1475
Emily Pauline Johnson: "The Lost Lagoon"
2 min