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
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1727
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1728
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1729
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1730
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1731
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1732
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1733
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1734
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1735
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1736
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1737
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1738
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1739
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1740
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1741
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1742
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1743
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1744
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1745
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1746
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1747
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min
1748
Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"
2 min
1749
William Stobb: "Poem that Wanted to Be a Brueghel"
3 min
1750
Esther Belin: "(De)colonial Therapy"
3 min