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.
1551
Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"
3 min
1552
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1553
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1554
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1555
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1556
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1557
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1558
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1559
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1560
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1561
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1562
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1563
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1564
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1565
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1566
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1567
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1568
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1569
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1570
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1571
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1572
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1573
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1574
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1575
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min