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.
1901
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1902
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1903
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1904
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1905
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1906
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1907
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1908
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1909
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1910
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1911
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1912
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
1913
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
1914
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
1915
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
1916
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
1917
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
1918
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
1919
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
1920
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
1921
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
1922
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
1923
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
1924
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
1925
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min