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
Terrance Hayes: "Muscular Fantasy"
4 min
1952
Paul Tran: "Hypothesis"
3 min
1953
Wang Wei: "The Blue-Green Stream"
2 min
1954
Queen Liliʻuokalani: "Kumulipo"
2 min
1955
Analicia Sotelo: "Grace Among the Ferns"
3 min
1956
Joy Priest: "Looking for the Beautiful Things"
4 min
1957
Paige Lewis: "Logically, I Know the Circus"
2 min
1958
Andrés Cerpa: "The Vault"
2 min
1959
Jane Wong: "The Waiting"
3 min
1960
Yone Noguchi: "How Near to Fairyland"
2 min
1961
Jitō Tennō: "[Has Spring passed away?]"
1 min
1962
Jose Hernandez Diaz: "Almost Buried"
2 min
1963
Diana Khoi Nguyen: "from Đổi Mới"
4 min
1964
Diane Seuss: "Ballad"
7 min
1965
Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"
2 min
1966
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
1967
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1968
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1969
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1970
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1971
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1972
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1973
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1974
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1975
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min