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
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1952
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1953
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1954
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
1955
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
1956
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1957
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1958
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1959
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1960
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1961
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1962
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1963
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1964
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1965
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1966
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1967
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1968
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1969
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1970
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1971
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1972
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1973
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1974
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1975
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min