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
Kate Rushin : "Venus & Serena Play Doubles On C...
3 min
1902
Jacqueline Woodson: "Absolute"
2 min
1903
Antoinette Brim-Bell: "Duplex: Black Mamas Pray...
1 min
1904
Kortney Morrow: "American Girl Dolls Attend Man...
3 min
1905
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "The Black Queen"
0 min
1906
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Songs for the Pe...
1 min
1907
Nikki Grimes: "You Still Dream"
1 min
1908
Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Suppose...
1 min
1909
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
1910
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
1911
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
1912
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
1913
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1914
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1915
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1916
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1917
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1918
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1919
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1920
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1921
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1922
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1923
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1924
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1925
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min