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