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