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.
1851
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Change on Change"
2 min
1852
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Snow"
1 min
1853
Danez Smith: "three Black poems for August"
5 min
1854
Meg Day: "Vespers"
3 min
1855
Philip Metres: "We Are All God’s Poems"
2 min
1856
Paisley Rekdal: "何日/What Day"
3 min
1857
Arthur Solway: "What Is Not"
2 min
1858
Maxwell Bodenheim: "Minna (IX)"
1 min
1859
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Paradox"
2 min
1860
David Tomas Martinez: "Trap Music"
6 min
1861
Carol Moldaw: "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"
2 min
1862
Li-Young Lee: "Big Clock"
5 min
1863
Victoria Chang: from "The Trees Witness Everyth...
3 min
1864
J. Hope Stein: "Dancing, before you were born"
2 min
1865
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Appalling Heart"
2 min
1866
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Winter with the Gulf St...
2 min
1867
Alireza Roshan: from "The Book of Absence"
7 min
1868
Ruth Madievsky: "Fog"
3 min
1869
Shane McCrae: "In the Event Of"
1 min
1870
Peter Grandbois: "When your son abandons the la...
2 min
1871
Yolanda Wisher: "no more grandma poems"
3 min
1872
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "A Desert Memory"
3 min
1873
Mrs. Minot Carter: "Fancies"
2 min
1874
William Stobb: "Poem that Wanted to Be a Brueghel"
3 min
1875
Esther Belin: "(De)colonial Therapy"
3 min