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.
1951
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1952
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1953
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1954
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1955
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1956
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1957
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1958
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1959
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1960
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1961
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1962
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1963
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
1964
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
1965
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
1966
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min
1967
Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"
1 min
1968
Babette Deutsch: "Silence"
1 min
1969
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.: "My Song"
1 min
1970
Hala Alyan: "Object Permanence"
2 min
1971
Safia Elhillo: "Ode to Sudanese-Americans"
3 min
1972
beyza ozer: "on holding rose water"
1 min
1973
Ladan Osman: "Take Wing Tempo"
2 min
1974
Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The New Decade"
1 min
1975
George Marion McClellan: "A January Dandelion"
1 min