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.
1751
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1752
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1753
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1754
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1755
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1756
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1757
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1758
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1759
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1760
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1761
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1762
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1763
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1764
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1765
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1766
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1767
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1768
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1769
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1770
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1771
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min
1772
Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"
2 min
1773
William Stobb: "Poem that Wanted to Be a Brueghel"
3 min
1774
Esther Belin: "(De)colonial Therapy"
3 min
1775
Denise Lajimodiere: "Tawkwaymenahnah"
2 min