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