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 Genevieve Shubeck. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
1976
Antoinette Brim-Bell: "Duplex: Black Mamas Pray...
1 min
1977
Kortney Morrow: "American Girl Dolls Attend Man...
3 min
1978
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "The Black Queen"
0 min
1979
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Songs for the Pe...
1 min
1980
Nikki Grimes: "You Still Dream"
1 min
1981
Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Suppose...
1 min
1982
Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
1983
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
1984
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
1985
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
1986
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1987
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1988
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1989
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1990
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1991
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1992
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1993
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1994
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1995
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1996
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1997
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1998
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1999
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2000
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min