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