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.

Books
1851
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1852
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1853
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1854
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1855
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1856
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1857
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1858
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1859
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1860
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1861
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1862
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1863
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1864
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1865
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1866
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1867
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1868
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1869
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1870
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1871
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1872
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1873
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1874
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1875
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min