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.
1926
Dan Rosenberg: "Order"
3 min
1927
Sara Teasdale: "August Moonrise"
4 min
1928
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"
3 min
1929
Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1930
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1931
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1932
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1933
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1934
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1935
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1936
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1937
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1938
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1939
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1940
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1941
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1942
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1943
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1944
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1945
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1946
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1947
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1948
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1949
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1950
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min