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.
1801
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1802
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1803
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1804
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1805
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1806
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1807
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1808
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1809
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1810
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1811
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1812
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1813
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1814
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1815
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1816
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1817
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1818
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1819
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1820
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
1821
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1822
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1823
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1824
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
1825
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min