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
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
1852
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
1853
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
1854
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
1855
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1856
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1857
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1858
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1859
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1860
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1861
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1862
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1863
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1864
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1865
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1866
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1867
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1868
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1869
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1870
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1871
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1872
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1873
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1874
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1875
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min