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