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
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
1952
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
1953
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
1954
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
1955
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1956
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1957
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1958
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1959
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1960
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1961
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1962
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1963
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1964
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1965
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1966
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1967
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1968
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1969
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1970
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1971
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1972
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1973
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1974
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1975
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min