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
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1902
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1903
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1904
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1905
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1906
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1907
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1908
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1909
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1910
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1911
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1912
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1913
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1914
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1915
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1916
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1917
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1918
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1919
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1920
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1921
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1922
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1923
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1924
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
1925
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min