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
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
1977
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
1978
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
1979
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
1980
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
1981
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
1982
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
1983
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
1984
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
1985
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
1986
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
1987
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
1988
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
1989
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
1990
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
1991
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
1992
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
1993
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
1994
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
1995
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
1996
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
1997
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
1998
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
1999
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2000
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min