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
Analicia Sotelo: "Grace Among the Ferns"
3 min
2002
Joy Priest: "Looking for the Beautiful Things"
4 min
2003
Paige Lewis: "Logically, I Know the Circus"
2 min
2004
Andrés Cerpa: "The Vault"
2 min
2005
Jane Wong: "The Waiting"
3 min
2006
Yone Noguchi: "How Near to Fairyland"
2 min
2007
Jitō Tennō: "[Has Spring passed away?]"
1 min
2008
Jose Hernandez Diaz: "Almost Buried"
2 min
2009
Diana Khoi Nguyen: "from Đổi Mới"
4 min
2010
Diane Seuss: "Ballad"
7 min
2011
Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"
2 min
2012
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
2013
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
2014
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
2015
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
2016
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
2017
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
2018
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
2019
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
2020
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
2021
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
2022
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
2023
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
2024
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
2025
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min