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.
1876
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
1877
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1878
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1879
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1880
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1881
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1882
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1883
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1884
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1885
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1886
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1887
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1888
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1889
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1890
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1891
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1892
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1893
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1894
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1895
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1896
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1897
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1898
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1899
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1900
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min