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
2376
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2377
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2378
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2379
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2380
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2381
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2382
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2383
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2384
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
2385
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2386
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2387
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2388
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2389
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2390
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
2391
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
2392
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
2393
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
2394
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
2395
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
2396
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
2397
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
2398
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
2399
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
2400
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min