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
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1777
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1778
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1779
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
1780
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
1781
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1782
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1783
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1784
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1785
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1786
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1787
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1788
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1789
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1790
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1791
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1792
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1793
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1794
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1795
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1796
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1797
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1798
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1799
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1800
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min