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