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
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1927
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1928
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1929
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1930
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1931
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1932
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1933
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1934
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1935
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1936
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1937
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1938
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1939
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1940
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1941
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1942
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
1943
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1944
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1945
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1946
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
1947
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
1948
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1949
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1950
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min