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
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1927
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1928
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1929
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1930
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1931
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1932
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1933
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1934
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1935
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1936
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1937
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1938
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1939
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
1940
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
1941
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
1942
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
1943
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
1944
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
1945
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
1946
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
1947
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
1948
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
1949
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
1950
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min