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
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
2002
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
2003
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
2004
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
2005
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
2006
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
2007
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
2008
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
2009
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
2010
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
2011
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
2012
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
2013
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
2014
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
2015
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
2016
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
2017
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
2018
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
2019
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
2020
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
2021
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
2022
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
2023
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
2024
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
2025
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min