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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Adélia Prado: "Weather Forecast"
3 min
1652
Jericho Brown: "Vaccinated"
3 min
1653
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1654
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1655
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1656
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1657
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1658
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1659
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1660
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1661
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1662
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1663
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1664
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1665
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1666
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1667
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1668
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1669
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1670
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1671
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1672
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1673
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1674
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1675
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min