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.
1526
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1527
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1528
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1529
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1530
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1531
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1532
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1533
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1534
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1535
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1536
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1537
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1538
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1539
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1540
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1541
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1542
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1543
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1544
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1545
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1546
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min
1547
Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"
2 min
1548
William Stobb: "Poem that Wanted to Be a Brueghel"
3 min
1549
Esther Belin: "(De)colonial Therapy"
3 min
1550
Denise Lajimodiere: "Tawkwaymenahnah"
2 min