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