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.

Books
2001
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
2002
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
2003
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
2004
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
2005
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
2006
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
2007
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
2008
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
2009
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
2010
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
2011
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
2012
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
2013
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
2014
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
2015
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
2016
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
2017
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
2018
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
2019
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min
2020
Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"
1 min
2021
Franny Choi: "Hangul Abecedarian"
0 min
2022
Gregory Pardlo: From "Giornata: On Faith"
0 min
2023
John Yau: "A Painter’s Thoughts"
2 min
2024
Bertrand N. O. Walker: "An Indian Love Song"
1 min
2025
Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Yesterday and To-morrow"
1 min