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
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
1977
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min
1978
Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"
1 min
1979
Franny Choi: "Hangul Abecedarian"
0 min
1980
Gregory Pardlo: From "Giornata: On Faith"
0 min
1981
John Yau: "A Painter’s Thoughts"
2 min
1982
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "An Indian Love Song"
1 min
1983
Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Yesterday and To-morrow"
1 min
1984
Laura Kasischke: "Prayer"
1 min
1985
Lidija Dimkovska: "Journey"
5 min
1986
Marilyn Chin: "Sage #3"
1 min
1987
Martha Collins: "Again Later"
0 min
1988
Paisley Rekdal: "有 識: Have Knowledge"
1 min
1989
W. B. Yeats: "VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window"
1 min
1990
Dante Di Stefano: "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daught...
2 min
1991
Rae Armantrout: "On Growth"
0 min
1992
Rosa Alcalá: "You Rode a Loop"
2 min
1993
Srikanth Reddy: Winter Term XV, from Underworld...
1 min
1994
Maureen N. McLane: From A Book of Hours
1 min
1995
Kiki Petrosino: "Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1...
1 min
1996
Libbie C. Baer: "When My Soul Findeth Wings"
1 min
1997
Claire Wahmanholm: "O"
1 min
1998
Zoë Hitzig: "I Looked on My Right Hand and Behe...
2 min
1999
Cedar Sigo: "Struggle Itself"
1 min
2000
Luci Tapahonso: "This Morning"
4 min