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
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Songs for the Pe...
1 min
1877
Nikki Grimes: "You Still Dream"
1 min
1878
Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Suppose...
1 min
1879
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
1880
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
1881
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
1882
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
1883
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1884
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1885
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1886
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1887
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1888
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1889
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1890
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1891
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1892
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1893
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1894
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1895
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1896
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1897
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1898
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1899
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1900
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min