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
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
2127
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
2128
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
2129
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2130
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2131
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2132
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2133
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2134
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2135
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2136
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2137
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2138
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2139
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2140
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2141
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2142
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2143
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2144
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2145
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2146
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2147
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2148
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2149
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2150
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min