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.
1951
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1952
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1953
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1954
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1955
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1956
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1957
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1958
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1959
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1960
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
1961
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
1962
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
1963
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
1964
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
1965
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
1966
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
1967
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
1968
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
1969
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
1970
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
1971
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
1972
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
1973
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
1974
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min
1975
Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"
1 min