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
2101
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
2102
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
2103
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
2104
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
2105
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2106
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2107
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2108
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2109
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2110
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2111
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2112
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2113
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2114
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2115
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2116
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2117
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2118
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2119
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2120
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2121
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2122
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2123
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2124
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2125
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min