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
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1802
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1803
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1804
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1805
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1806
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1807
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1808
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1809
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1810
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1811
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1812
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
1813
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
1814
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
1815
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
1816
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
1817
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
1818
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
1819
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
1820
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
1821
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
1822
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
1823
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
1824
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
1825
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min