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
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1477
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1478
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1479
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1480
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1481
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1482
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1483
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1484
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1485
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1486
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1487
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1488
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1489
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1490
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1491
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1492
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1493
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1494
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min
1495
Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"
2 min
1496
William Stobb: "Poem that Wanted to Be a Brueghel"
3 min
1497
Esther Belin: "(De)colonial Therapy"
3 min
1498
Denise Lajimodiere: "Tawkwaymenahnah"
2 min
1499
Kathy Engel: "It would be water"
3 min
1500
Robin Chapman: "The Door-to-Door Saleswoman"
3 min