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
2176
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2177
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2178
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2179
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2180
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2181
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2182
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2183
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2184
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2185
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2186
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2187
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2188
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2189
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2190
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2191
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2192
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2193
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2194
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2195
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2196
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2197
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2198
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2199
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
2200
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min