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