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
2326
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2327
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2328
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2329
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2330
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2331
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2332
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2333
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2334
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2335
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2336
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2337
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2338
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2339
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2340
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2341
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2342
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2343
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2344
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2345
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2346
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2347
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2348
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2349
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
2350
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min