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