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