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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
1876
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1877
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1878
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1879
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1880
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1881
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1882
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1883
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1884
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1885
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1886
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
1887
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
1888
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
1889
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
1890
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
1891
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
1892
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
1893
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
1894
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
1895
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
1896
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
1897
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
1898
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
1899
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
1900
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min