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
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
1952
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min
1953
Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"
1 min
1954
Franny Choi: "Hangul Abecedarian"
0 min
1955
Gregory Pardlo: From "Giornata: On Faith"
0 min
1956
John Yau: "A Painter’s Thoughts"
2 min
1957
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "An Indian Love Song"
1 min
1958
Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Yesterday and To-morrow"
1 min
1959
Laura Kasischke: "Prayer"
1 min
1960
Lidija Dimkovska: "Journey"
5 min
1961
Marilyn Chin: "Sage #3"
1 min
1962
Martha Collins: "Again Later"
0 min
1963
Paisley Rekdal: "有 識: Have Knowledge"
1 min
1964
W. B. Yeats: "VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window"
1 min
1965
Dante Di Stefano: "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daught...
2 min
1966
Rae Armantrout: "On Growth"
0 min
1967
Rosa Alcalá: "You Rode a Loop"
2 min
1968
Srikanth Reddy: Winter Term XV, from Underworld...
1 min
1969
Maureen N. McLane: From A Book of Hours
1 min
1970
Kiki Petrosino: "Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1...
1 min
1971
Libbie C. Baer: "When My Soul Findeth Wings"
1 min
1972
Claire Wahmanholm: "O"
1 min
1973
Zoë Hitzig: "I Looked on My Right Hand and Behe...
2 min
1974
Cedar Sigo: "Struggle Itself"
1 min
1975
Luci Tapahonso: "This Morning"
4 min