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.
1851
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1852
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1853
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1854
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1855
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1856
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1857
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1858
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1859
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1860
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1861
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1862
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1863
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1864
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1865
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1866
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1867
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1868
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1869
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1870
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1871
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
1872
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1873
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1874
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1875
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min