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
2251
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2252
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2253
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2254
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2255
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2256
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2257
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2258
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2259
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2260
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2261
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2262
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2263
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2264
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2265
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2266
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2267
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2268
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2269
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2270
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2271
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2272
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2273
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2274
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
2275
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min