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.
1626
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1627
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1628
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1629
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1630
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1631
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1632
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1633
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1634
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1635
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1636
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1637
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1638
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1639
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1640
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1641
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1642
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1643
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1644
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1645
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1646
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1647
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1648
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1649
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1650
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min