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 Genevieve Shubeck. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
1476
Karen Head: "Venus de Milo: On Being Rediscovered"
2 min
1477
Reginald Dwayne Betts: "Memorial Hoops"
4 min
1478
Adélia Prado: "Weather Forecast"
3 min
1479
Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"
3 min
1480
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1481
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1482
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1483
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1484
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1485
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1486
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1487
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1488
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1489
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1490
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1491
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1492
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1493
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1494
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1495
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1496
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1497
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1498
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1499
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1500
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min