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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Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1652
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1653
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1654
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1655
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1656
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1657
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1658
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1659
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1660
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1661
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1662
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1663
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1664
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1665
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1666
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1667
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1668
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1669
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1670
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1671
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1672
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1673
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1674
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1675
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min