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
2301
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2302
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2303
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2304
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2305
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2306
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2307
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2308
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2309
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2310
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2311
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2312
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2313
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2314
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2315
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2316
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2317
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2318
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2319
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2320
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2321
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2322
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2323
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2324
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
2325
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min