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
Sharan Strange: "Slippage, a Provocation"
5 min
1852
Jasmine Reid: "Certificate of Live Birth"
2 min
1853
Rio Cortez: "Driving at Night"
0 min
1854
Bettina Judd: "on empathy"
3 min
1855
Josephine D. Heard: "Sunshine After Cloud"
1 min
1856
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Again it is September"
0 min
1857
Nandi Comer: "The Check In"
2 min
1858
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Middle of the Burning"
5 min
1859
Daria-Ann Martineau: "Carnivorous, with a varie...
2 min
1860
Charleen McClure: "Caretaker"
2 min
1861
Starr Davis: "Today, God"
2 min
1862
Olivia Ward Bush-Banks: "The Plains of Peace"
2 min
1863
Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.: "A Prayer"
0 min
1864
Joy Priest: "Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Ov...
4 min
1865
Marwa Helal: "WHO REAL؟"
14 min
1866
Jeremy Michael Clark: "One Fire, Quenched with ...
4 min
1867
Desiree C. Bailey: "Woman in Dub"
3 min
1868
francine j. Harris: "Did anyone ever ask any on...
2 min
1869
Leslie Pinckney Hill: "Vacation End"
1 min
1870
William Stanley Braithwaite: "It’s a Long Way"
0 min
1871
Nabila Lovelace: "By Inch-Meal a Disease"
1 min
1872
Natasha Oladokun: "Black Credit"
3 min
1873
makalani bandele: "sample collected from a supe...
2 min
1874
Taylor Johnson: "Menace to"
1 min
1875
Ashley M. Jones: "ALL Y’ALL REALLY FROM ALABAMA"
3 min