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.
1926
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
1927
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1928
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1929
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1930
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1931
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1932
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1933
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1934
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1935
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1936
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1937
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1938
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1939
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1940
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1941
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1942
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1943
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1944
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1945
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1946
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1947
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1948
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1949
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1950
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min