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
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1877
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1878
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1879
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1880
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1881
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1882
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1883
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1884
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1885
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1886
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1887
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1888
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1889
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1890
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1891
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1892
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1893
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1894
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1895
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1896
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
1897
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1898
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1899
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1900
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min