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
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1952
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1953
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1954
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1955
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1956
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1957
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1958
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1959
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1960
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1961
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1962
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1963
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1964
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1965
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1966
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1967
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1968
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
1969
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
1970
Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
1971
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
1972
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
1973
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
1974
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
1975
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min