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.
1501
Adélia Prado: "Weather Forecast"
3 min
1502
Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"
3 min
1503
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1504
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1505
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1506
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1507
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1508
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1509
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1510
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1511
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1512
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1513
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1514
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1515
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1516
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1517
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1518
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1519
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1520
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1521
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1522
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1523
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1524
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1525
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min