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
2277
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2278
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2279
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2280
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2281
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2282
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2283
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2284
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2285
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2286
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2287
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2288
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2289
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2290
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2291
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2292
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
2293
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
2294
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
2295
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
2296
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
2297
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
2298
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
2299
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
2300
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min