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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Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1677
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1678
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1679
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1680
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1681
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1682
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1683
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1684
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1685
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1686
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1687
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1688
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1689
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1690
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1691
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1692
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1693
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1694
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1695
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1696
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min
1697
Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"
2 min
1698
William Stobb: "Poem that Wanted to Be a Brueghel"
3 min
1699
Esther Belin: "(De)colonial Therapy"
3 min
1700
Denise Lajimodiere: "Tawkwaymenahnah"
2 min