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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Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2152
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2153
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2154
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2155
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2156
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
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Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2158
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2159
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2160
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2161
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2162
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2163
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2164
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2165
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2166
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2167
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2168
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2169
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2170
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2171
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2172
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2173
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
2174
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
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Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min