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