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
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
1602
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1603
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1604
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1605
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
1606
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
1607
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1608
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1609
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1610
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1611
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1612
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1613
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1614
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1615
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1616
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1617
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1618
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1619
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1620
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1621
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1622
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1623
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1624
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1625
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min