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
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
2052
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
2053
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
2054
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
2055
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
2056
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
2057
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
2058
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
2059
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
2060
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
2061
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
2062
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
2063
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
2064
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
2065
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
2066
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
2067
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
2068
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
2069
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
2070
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
2071
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
2072
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
2073
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
2074
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
2075
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min