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
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1927
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1928
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1929
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1930
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1931
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1932
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1933
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1934
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1935
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1936
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1937
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1938
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1939
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1940
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1941
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1942
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1943
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1944
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1945
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1946
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1947
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
1948
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
1949
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
1950
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min