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
Nikki Grimes: "You Still Dream"
1 min
2052
Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Suppose...
1 min
2053
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
2054
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
2055
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
2056
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
2057
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
2058
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
2059
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
2060
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
2061
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2062
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2063
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2064
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2065
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2066
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2067
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2068
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2069
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2070
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2071
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2072
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2073
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2074
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2075
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min