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
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1952
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1953
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1954
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1955
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1956
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1957
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1958
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1959
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1960
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1961
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1962
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1963
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1964
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1965
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1966
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1967
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1968
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1969
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1970
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1971
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1972
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
1973
Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min
1974
Hannah Sanghee Park: "The One Mockingbird Only ...
3 min
1975
Jada Renée Allen: "Interior"
2 min