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
A Christmas Carol	Christina Rossetti	2018
Drifting Flowers of the Sea	Sadakichi Hartmann	2018
Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch	Joshua Bennett	2018
Immigrant Can’t Write Poetry	Wang Ping	2018
Trickster III	Kwame Dawes	2017
Dear P. [If you are]	Victoria Chang	2017
Brooding Grief	D. H. Lawrence	2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born	Nicole Sealey	2017
A Bell, Still Unrung	Safiya Sinclair	2016
The Peddler of Flowers	Amy Lowell	2016
Migrant Earth	Deema K. Shehabi	2016
things that shine in the night	Rigoberto González	2016
[we fight back to control the outside]	kari edwards	2016
Prayer at Sunrise	James Weldon Johnson	2015
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2015
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
The House	Richard Wilbur	2010
An Old-Fashioned Song	John Hollander	1993
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer	Mark Strand	1979
The Prose Poem	Campbell McGrath	2003

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