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.
1776
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
1777
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
1778
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1779
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1780
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1781
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1782
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1783
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1784
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1785
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1786
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1787
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1788
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1789
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1790
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1791
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1792
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1793
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1794
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1795
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1796
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1797
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1798
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1799
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1800
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min