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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
2001
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
2002
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
2003
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
2004
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
2005
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
2006
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
2007
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
2008
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
2009
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
2010
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
2011
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
2012
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
2013
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
2014
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
2015
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
2016
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
2017
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
2018
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
2019
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
2020
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
2021
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
2022
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
2023
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
2024
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
2025
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min