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
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
1952
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
1953
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
1954
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
1955
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
1956
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
1957
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
1958
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
1959
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
1960
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
1961
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
1962
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min
1963
Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"
1 min
1964
Franny Choi: "Hangul Abecedarian"
0 min
1965
Gregory Pardlo: From "Giornata: On Faith"
0 min
1966
John Yau: "A Painter’s Thoughts"
2 min
1967
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "An Indian Love Song"
1 min
1968
Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Yesterday and To-morrow"
1 min
1969
Laura Kasischke: "Prayer"
1 min
1970
Lidija Dimkovska: "Journey"
5 min
1971
Marilyn Chin: "Sage #3"
1 min
1972
Martha Collins: "Again Later"
0 min
1973
Paisley Rekdal: "有 識: Have Knowledge"
1 min
1974
W. B. Yeats: "VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window"
1 min
1975
Dante Di Stefano: "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daught...
2 min