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