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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
1426
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1427
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1428
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1429
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1430
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1431
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1432
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1433
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1434
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1435
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1436
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1437
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1438
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1439
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1440
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1441
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1442
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1443
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1444
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1445
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1446
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1447
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1448
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1449
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1450
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min