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
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1627
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1628
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1629
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1630
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1631
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1632
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1633
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1634
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1635
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1636
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1637
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1638
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1639
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1640
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1641
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1642
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1643
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1644
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min
1645
Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"
2 min
1646
William Stobb: "Poem that Wanted to Be a Brueghel"
3 min
1647
Esther Belin: "(De)colonial Therapy"
3 min
1648
Denise Lajimodiere: "Tawkwaymenahnah"
2 min
1649
Kathy Engel: "It would be water"
3 min
1650
Robin Chapman: "The Door-to-Door Saleswoman"
3 min