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