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
Lidija Dimkovska: "Journey"
5 min
2002
Marilyn Chin: "Sage #3"
1 min
2003
Martha Collins: "Again Later"
0 min
2004
Paisley Rekdal: "有 識: Have Knowledge"
1 min
2005
W. B. Yeats: "VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window"
1 min
2006
Dante Di Stefano: "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daught...
2 min
2007
Rae Armantrout: "On Growth"
0 min
2008
Rosa Alcalá: "You Rode a Loop"
2 min
2009
Srikanth Reddy: Winter Term XV, from Underworld...
1 min
2010
Maureen N. McLane: From A Book of Hours
1 min
2011
Kiki Petrosino: "Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1...
1 min
2012
Libbie C. Baer: "When My Soul Findeth Wings"
1 min
2013
Claire Wahmanholm: "O"
1 min
2014
Zoë Hitzig: "I Looked on My Right Hand and Behe...
2 min
2015
Cedar Sigo: "Struggle Itself"
1 min
2016
Luci Tapahonso: "This Morning"
4 min
2017
Kristina Martino: "All I Can Have are Field Rec...
2 min
2018
Carolina Ebeid: "(disambiguation of miriam)"
1 min
2019
Alexander Posey: "My Hermitage"
2 min
2020
J.P. Grasser: "Letter to My Great, Great Grandc...
2 min
2021
Sy Hoahwah: "Church For the Disliked"
1 min
2022
Tacey M. Atsitty: "River Sonnet"
1 min
2023
Santee Frazier: "Hyperacusis"
1 min
2024
Rita Dove: "Testimony: 1968"
1 min
2025
Ray Young Bear: "In Pine, Arizona"
5 min