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.
2051
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
2052
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
2053
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
2054
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
2055
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
2056
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
2057
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
2058
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
2059
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
2060
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
2061
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
2062
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
2063
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
2064
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
2065
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
2066
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
2067
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
2068
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
2069
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
2070
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
2071
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
2072
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
2073
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
2074
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
2075
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min