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