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
2276
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
2277
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2278
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2279
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2280
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2281
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2282
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2283
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2284
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2285
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2286
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2287
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2288
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2289
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2290
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2291
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2292
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2293
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2294
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2295
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2296
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2297
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2298
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2299
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2300
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min