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
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1827
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1828
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1829
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1830
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1831
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1832
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1833
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1834
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1835
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1836
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1837
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1838
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1839
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1840
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1841
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1842
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1843
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1844
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1845
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1846
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1847
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1848
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1849
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
1850
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min