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.
1451
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1452
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1453
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1454
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1455
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1456
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1457
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1458
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1459
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1460
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1461
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1462
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1463
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1464
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1465
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1466
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1467
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1468
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1469
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1470
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1471
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1472
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1473
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1474
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1475
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min