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
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
1827
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
1828
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
1829
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
1830
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1831
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1832
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1833
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1834
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1835
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1836
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1837
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1838
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1839
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1840
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1841
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1842
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1843
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1844
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1845
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1846
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1847
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1848
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1849
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1850
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min