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.
1601
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1602
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1603
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1604
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1605
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1606
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1607
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1608
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1609
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1610
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1611
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1612
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1613
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1614
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1615
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1616
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1617
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1618
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1619
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1620
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1621
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1622
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1623
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1624
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
1625
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min