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