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.
1501
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1502
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1503
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1504
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1505
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1506
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1507
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1508
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1509
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1510
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1511
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1512
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1513
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1514
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1515
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1516
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1517
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1518
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1519
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1520
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1521
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1522
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1523
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
1524
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1525
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min