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
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Adélia Prado: "Weather Forecast"
3 min
1452
Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"
3 min
1453
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1454
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1455
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1456
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1457
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1458
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1459
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1460
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1461
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1462
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1463
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1464
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1465
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1466
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1467
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1468
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1469
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1470
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1471
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1472
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1473
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1474
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1475
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min