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.
2001
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
2002
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
2003
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
2004
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
2005
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
2006
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
2007
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
2008
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
2009
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
2010
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
2011
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
2012
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
2013
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
2014
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
2015
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
2016
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
2017
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
2018
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
2019
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
2020
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
2021
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
2022
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
2023
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
2024
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min
2025
Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"
1 min