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
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1877
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1878
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1879
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
1880
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
1881
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1882
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1883
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1884
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1885
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1886
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1887
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1888
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1889
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1890
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1891
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1892
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1893
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1894
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1895
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1896
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1897
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1898
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1899
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1900
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min