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 Genevieve Shubeck. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
2026
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
2027
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
2028
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
2029
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
2030
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
2031
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
2032
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
2033
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
2034
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
2035
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
2036
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
2037
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
2038
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
2039
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
2040
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
2041
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
2042
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
2043
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
2044
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
2045
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
2046
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
2047
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
2048
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
2049
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
2050
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min