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
Alexander Pushkin: "A Winter Evening"
2 min
1752
Kay Ulanday Barrett: "Root Systems"
4 min
1753
Maya Marshall: "'Why Don't You Parent a Little?'"
2 min
1754
Luis Muñoz: "Oh!"
2 min
1755
Ishion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"
3 min
1756
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1757
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1758
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1759
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1760
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1761
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1762
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1763
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1764
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1765
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1766
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1767
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1768
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1769
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1770
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1771
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1772
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1773
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1774
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1775
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min