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.
1751
Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Suppose...
1 min
1752
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
1753
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
1754
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
1755
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
1756
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1757
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1758
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1759
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1760
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1761
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1762
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1763
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1764
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1765
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1766
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1767
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1768
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1769
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1770
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1771
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1772
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1773
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1774
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1775
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min