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