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