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.

Books
2076
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2077
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2078
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2079
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2080
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2081
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2082
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2083
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2084
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2085
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2086
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2087
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2088
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2089
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2090
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2091
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2092
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2093
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2094
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2095
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2096
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2097
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2098
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2099
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
2100
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min