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.
1976
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
1977
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
1978
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
1979
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
1980
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
1981
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
1982
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
1983
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min
1984
Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"
1 min
1985
Franny Choi: "Hangul Abecedarian"
0 min
1986
Gregory Pardlo: From "Giornata: On Faith"
0 min
1987
John Yau: "A Painter’s Thoughts"
2 min
1988
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "An Indian Love Song"
1 min
1989
Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Yesterday and To-morrow"
1 min
1990
Laura Kasischke: "Prayer"
1 min
1991
Lidija Dimkovska: "Journey"
5 min
1992
Marilyn Chin: "Sage #3"
1 min
1993
Martha Collins: "Again Later"
0 min
1994
Paisley Rekdal: "有 識: Have Knowledge"
1 min
1995
W. B. Yeats: "VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window"
1 min
1996
Dante Di Stefano: "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daught...
2 min
1997
Rae Armantrout: "On Growth"
0 min
1998
Rosa Alcalá: "You Rode a Loop"
2 min
1999
Srikanth Reddy: Winter Term XV, from Underworld...
1 min
2000
Maureen N. McLane: From A Book of Hours
1 min