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
Nikki Grimes: "You Still Dream"
1 min
2102
Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Suppose...
1 min
2103
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
2104
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
2105
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
2106
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
2107
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
2108
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
2109
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
2110
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
2111
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2112
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2113
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2114
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2115
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2116
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2117
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2118
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2119
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2120
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2121
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2122
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2123
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2124
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2125
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min