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
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
2002
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
2003
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
2004
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
2005
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
2006
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
2007
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
2008
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
2009
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
2010
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
2011
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
2012
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
2013
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
2014
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
2015
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
2016
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
2017
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
2018
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
2019
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
2020
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
2021
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
2022
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
2023
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
2024
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
2025
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min