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
Halee Kirkwood: "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
2 min
2002
Alexander Posey: "On the Hills of Dawn"
0 min
2003
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Marshlands"
1 min
2004
Roy G. Guzmán: excerpt from "The Age of Aquarius"
4 min
2005
Michael Kleber-Diggs: "America Is Loving Me to ...
3 min
2006
Rena Priest: "The Index"
2 min
2007
James Cihlar: "The Way Words Echo in Our Heads"
1 min
2008
Margaret Noodin: "Ozaagi’aan One Open to an Other"
2 min
2009
Diane di Prima: "Revolutionary Letter #1"
1 min
2010
Delmira Agustini: "The Vampire"
1 min
2011
Julian Talamantez Brolaski: "poetry is a tempor...
11 min
2012
Claire Meuschke: "zero in on"
2 min
2013
Diana Hamilton: "Trance Essay for Remembering I...
5 min
2014
Lynn Xu: "Untitled Fragment"
1 min
2015
Susan Briante: Excerpt from "Defacing the Monum...
3 min
2016
Kevin Killian: "Free"
1 min
2017
Kay Gabriel: "Like, Comma, Like"
1 min
2018
Daniel Borzutzky: "Written After a Massacre in ...
3 min
2019
Margaret Ross: "Evolution"
4 min
2020
Öykü Tekten: "mountain language"
1 min
2021
Aldrin Valdez: "ars poetica"
2 min
2022
Trace Howard DePass: "[th(e)reat] → siege engine"
2 min
2023
Kerry Carnahan: "[My ancestors are empty words]"
2 min
2024
Juliana Spahr: excerpts from "Will There Be Sin...
10 min
2025
Solmaz Sharif: "He, Too"
0 min