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
2351
Kate Rushin : "Venus & Serena Play Doubles On C...
3 min
2352
Jacqueline Woodson: "Absolute"
2 min
2353
Antoinette Brim-Bell: "Duplex: Black Mamas Pray...
1 min
2354
Kortney Morrow: "American Girl Dolls Attend Man...
3 min
2355
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "The Black Queen"
0 min
2356
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Songs for the Pe...
1 min
2357
Nikki Grimes: "You Still Dream"
1 min
2358
Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Suppose...
1 min
2359
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
2360
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
2361
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
2362
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
2363
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
2364
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
2365
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
2366
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
2367
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2368
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2369
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2370
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2371
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2372
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2373
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2374
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2375
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min