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.
1576
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1577
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1578
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1579
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1580
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1581
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1582
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1583
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1584
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1585
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1586
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1587
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1588
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1589
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1590
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1591
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1592
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1593
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1594
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1595
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1596
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1597
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1598
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1599
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1600
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min