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.
1451
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1452
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1453
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1454
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
1455
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
1456
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1457
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1458
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1459
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1460
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1461
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1462
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1463
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1464
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1465
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1466
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1467
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1468
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1469
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1470
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1471
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1472
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1473
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1474
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1475
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min