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