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.
1901
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1902
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1903
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1904
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1905
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1906
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1907
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1908
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1909
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1910
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1911
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1912
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1913
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1914
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1915
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1916
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1917
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1918
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1919
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1920
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1921
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
1922
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1923
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1924
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1925
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min