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
Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"
3 min
1627
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1628
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1629
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1630
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1631
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1632
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1633
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1634
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1635
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1636
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1637
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1638
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1639
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1640
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1641
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1642
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1643
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1644
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1645
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1646
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1647
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1648
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1649
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1650
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min