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
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
2102
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
2103
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
2104
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
2105
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
2106
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
2107
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
2108
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
2109
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
2110
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
2111
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
2112
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
2113
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
2114
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
2115
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
2116
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
2117
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
2118
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
2119
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
2120
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
2121
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
2122
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
2123
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
2124
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
2125
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min