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
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2127
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2128
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2129
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2130
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2131
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2132
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2133
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2134
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2135
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2136
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2137
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2138
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2139
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2140
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
2141
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
2142
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
2143
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
2144
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
2145
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
2146
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
2147
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
2148
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
2149
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
2150
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min