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