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 Genevieve Shubeck. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
2026
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2027
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2028
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2029
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2030
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2031
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2032
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2033
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2034
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2035
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2036
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2037
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2038
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2039
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2040
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2041
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2042
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2043
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2044
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2045
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2046
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2047
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2048
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2049
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
2050
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min