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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Antoinette Brim-Bell: "Duplex: Black Mamas Pray...
1 min
1627
Kortney Morrow: "American Girl Dolls Attend Man...
3 min
1628
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "The Black Queen"
0 min
1629
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Songs for the Pe...
1 min
1630
Nikki Grimes: "You Still Dream"
1 min
1631
Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Suppose...
1 min
1632
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
1633
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
1634
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
1635
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
1636
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1637
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1638
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1639
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1640
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1641
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1642
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1643
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1644
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1645
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1646
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1647
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1648
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1649
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1650
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min