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.
1826
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1827
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1828
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1829
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1830
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1831
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1832
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1833
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1834
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1835
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1836
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1837
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1838
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1839
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1840
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1841
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1842
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1843
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1844
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1845
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1846
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1847
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1848
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1849
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
1850
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min