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.
2301
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
2302
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
2303
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
2304
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
2305
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
2306
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
2307
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
2308
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
2309
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
2310
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
2311
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
2312
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
2313
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
2314
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
2315
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
2316
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
2317
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
2318
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
2319
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
2320
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
2321
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
2322
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
2323
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
2324
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
2325
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min