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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Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2202
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2203
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2204
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2205
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2206
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2207
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2208
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
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Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2210
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2211
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2212
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2213
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2214
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2215
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2216
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2217
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
2218
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
2219
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
2220
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
2221
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
2222
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
2223
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
2224
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
2225
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min