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
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
1902
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
1903
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1904
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1905
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1906
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1907
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1908
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1909
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1910
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1911
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1912
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1913
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1914
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1915
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1916
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1917
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1918
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1919
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1920
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1921
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1922
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1923
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1924
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1925
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min