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
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1927
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1928
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1929
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1930
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1931
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1932
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1933
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1934
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1935
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1936
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1937
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1938
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1939
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1940
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1941
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1942
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1943
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1944
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1945
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1946
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1947
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1948
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1949
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1950
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min