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