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.
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Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1552
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1553
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1554
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1555
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1556
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1557
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1558
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1559
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1560
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1561
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1562
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1563
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1564
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1565
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1566
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1567
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1568
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1569
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1570
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1571
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1572
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1573
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1574
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1575
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min