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
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
2002
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
2003
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
2004
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
2005
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
2006
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
2007
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
2008
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
2009
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
2010
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
2011
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
2012
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
2013
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
2014
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
2015
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
2016
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
2017
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
2018
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
2019
Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min
2020
Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"
4 min
2021
Wo Chan: "the shoes"
4 min
2022
Carl Sandburg: "Good Night"
2 min
2023
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "July"
1 min
2024
Samiya Bashir: "i traveled the world. it was fi...
3 min
2025
Guest Editor Interview: July Guest Editor R. Er...
26 min