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
2126
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
2127
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
2128
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
2129
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
2130
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
2131
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
2132
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
2133
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
2134
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2135
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2136
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2137
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2138
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2139
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2140
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2141
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2142
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2143
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2144
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2145
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2146
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2147
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2148
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2149
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2150
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min