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
2226
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
2227
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2228
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2229
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2230
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2231
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2232
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2233
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2234
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2235
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2236
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2237
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2238
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2239
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2240
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2241
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2242
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2243
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2244
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2245
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2246
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2247
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2248
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2249
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2250
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min