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.
1601
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1602
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1603
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1604
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1605
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1606
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1607
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1608
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1609
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1610
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1611
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1612
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1613
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1614
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1615
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1616
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1617
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1618
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1619
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1620
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1621
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1622
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1623
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1624
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1625
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min