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
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
2002
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
2003
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
2004
Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
2005
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
2006
L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
2007
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
2008
Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
2009
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
2010
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
2011
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
2012
Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2013
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2014
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
2015
Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2016
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2017
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
2018
James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2019
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2020
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2021
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2022
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2023
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2024
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2025
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min