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
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1752
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1753
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1754
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1755
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1756
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1757
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1758
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1759
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1760
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1761
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1762
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1763
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1764
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1765
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1766
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1767
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1768
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1769
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1770
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1771
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1772
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1773
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1774
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1775
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min