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.
1726
Elinor Wylie: "Velvet Shoes"
2 min
1727
Walter de la Mare: "Mistletoe"
1 min
1728
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1729
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1730
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1731
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1732
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1733
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1734
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1735
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1736
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1737
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1738
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1739
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1740
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1741
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1742
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1743
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1744
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1745
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1746
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1747
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1748
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1749
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1750
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min