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.
1701
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1702
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1703
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1704
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1705
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1706
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1707
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1708
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1709
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1710
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1711
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min
1712
Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"
2 min
1713
William Stobb: "Poem that Wanted to Be a Brueghel"
3 min
1714
Esther Belin: "(De)colonial Therapy"
3 min
1715
Denise Lajimodiere: "Tawkwaymenahnah"
2 min
1716
Kathy Engel: "It would be water"
3 min
1717
Robin Chapman: "The Door-to-Door Saleswoman"
3 min
1718
Lynn Riggs: "Rhythm of Rain"
2 min
1719
Emily Pauline Johnson: "The Lost Lagoon"
2 min
1720
Sean Hill: "The White-headed Woodpecker"
5 min
1721
Angela C. Trudell Vasquez: "In the Discount Lot"
3 min
1722
James Crews: "Self-Compassion"
3 min
1723
CMarie Fuhrman: "Anne"
3 min
1724
Wendy Vardaman: "what we learn in time of pesti...
3 min
1725
Carlos Montezuma: "Changing Is Not Vanishing"
2 min