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.
1901
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1902
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1903
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1904
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1905
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1906
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1907
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1908
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1909
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1910
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1911
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1912
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1913
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1914
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1915
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1916
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1917
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1918
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1919
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
1920
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
1921
Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min
1922
Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"
4 min
1923
Wo Chan: "the shoes"
4 min
1924
Carl Sandburg: "Good Night"
2 min
1925
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "July"
1 min