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.
2101
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
2102
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
2103
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
2104
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
2105
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
2106
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
2107
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
2108
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
2109
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
2110
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
2111
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
2112
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
2113
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
2114
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
2115
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
2116
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
2117
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
2118
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
2119
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
2120
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
2121
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
2122
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
2123
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min
2124
Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"
1 min
2125
Franny Choi: "Hangul Abecedarian"
0 min