Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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Title	Author	Year
Soy Boricua	Giannina Braschi	2011
Poem from Pastoral; or, the Inquisition of Memories (Memories walk around dressed as old men.)	Giannina Braschi	1988
A Poem from Pastoral; or, the Inquisition of Memories (I make the affirmation.)	Giannina Braschi	1988
Little Lead Soldiers	Giannina Braschi	1988
I Have Been a Fortune Teller	Giannina Braschi	1988
Poetry of the Night	Giannina Braschi	1985
Truth	Giannina Braschi	1981
A Letter Comes and Visits Me	Giannina Braschi	1981
Behind the Word is Silence	Giannina Braschi	1981
Wings of Return	Don Mee Choi	2020
The End of a Nation	Don Mee Choi	2020
[When I come home they rush to me, the flies]	Aracelis Girmay	2020
From “Grandmother’s Garden”	Meena Alexander	2020
ED ASNER	Ronaldo V. Wilson	2019
Derrida/Coleman	Taylor Johnson	2019
Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson	Robin Coste Lewis	2017
Had the Vines Budded, Were the Pomegranates in Bloom	S. Brook Corfman	2019
It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off	Hanif Abdurraqib	2019
Unwished For	Shira Erlichman	2019
Grace	Joy Harjo	1990

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