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.
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Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1552
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1553
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1554
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1555
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1556
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1557
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1558
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1559
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1560
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1561
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1562
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1563
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1564
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1565
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1566
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1567
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1568
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1569
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1570
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1571
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1572
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
1573
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1574
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1575
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min