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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L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1552
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1553
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1554
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1555
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1556
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1557
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1558
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1559
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1560
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1561
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1562
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1563
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1564
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1565
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1566
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1567
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1568
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1569
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1570
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1571
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1572
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1573
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1574
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1575
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min