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