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