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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Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1577
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1578
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1579
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1580
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1581
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1582
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1583
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1584
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1585
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1586
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1587
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1588
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1589
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1590
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1591
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1592
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1593
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1594
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1595
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
1596
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1597
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1598
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1599
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
1600
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min