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