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.

Books
1576
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
1577
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
1578
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
1579
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
1580
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1581
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1582
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1583
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1584
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1585
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1586
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1587
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1588
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1589
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1590
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1591
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1592
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1593
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1594
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1595
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1596
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1597
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1598
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1599
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1600
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min