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
Toru Dutt: "Sonnet—Baugmaree"
2 min
2002
Rachel Mennies: "September 23, 2016"
4 min
2003
Luther Hughes: "When Struck by Night"
3 min
2004
Donika Kelly: "In the Beginning"
2 min
2005
Terrance Hayes: "Muscular Fantasy"
4 min
2006
Paul Tran: "Hypothesis"
3 min
2007
Wang Wei: "The Blue-Green Stream"
2 min
2008
Queen Liliʻuokalani: "Kumulipo"
2 min
2009
Analicia Sotelo: "Grace Among the Ferns"
3 min
2010
Joy Priest: "Looking for the Beautiful Things"
4 min
2011
Paige Lewis: "Logically, I Know the Circus"
2 min
2012
Andrés Cerpa: "The Vault"
2 min
2013
Jane Wong: "The Waiting"
3 min
2014
Yone Noguchi: "How Near to Fairyland"
2 min
2015
Jitō Tennō: "[Has Spring passed away?]"
1 min
2016
Jose Hernandez Diaz: "Almost Buried"
2 min
2017
Diana Khoi Nguyen: "from Đổi Mới"
4 min
2018
Diane Seuss: "Ballad"
7 min
2019
Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"
2 min
2020
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
2021
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
2022
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
2023
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
2024
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
2025
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min