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
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1927
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1928
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1929
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1930
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1931
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1932
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1933
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1934
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1935
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1936
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1937
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1938
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1939
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1940
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1941
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1942
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1943
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1944
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1945
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1946
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1947
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1948
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1949
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1950
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min