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
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2027
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2028
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2029
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2030
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2031
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2032
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2033
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2034
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2035
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2036
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2037
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2038
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2039
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2040
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2041
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2042
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2043
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2044
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2045
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2046
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2047
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2048
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
2049
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
2050
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min