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
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
2052
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
2053
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
2054
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
2055
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
2056
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2057
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2058
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2059
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2060
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2061
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2062
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2063
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2064
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2065
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2066
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2067
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2068
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2069
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2070
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2071
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2072
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2073
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2074
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2075
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min