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
Kate Rushin : "Venus & Serena Play Doubles On C...
3 min
2102
Jacqueline Woodson: "Absolute"
2 min
2103
Antoinette Brim-Bell: "Duplex: Black Mamas Pray...
1 min
2104
Kortney Morrow: "American Girl Dolls Attend Man...
3 min
2105
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "The Black Queen"
0 min
2106
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Songs for the Pe...
1 min
2107
Nikki Grimes: "You Still Dream"
1 min
2108
Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Suppose...
1 min
2109
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
2110
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
2111
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
2112
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
2113
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
2114
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
2115
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
2116
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
2117
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2118
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2119
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2120
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2121
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2122
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2123
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2124
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2125
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min