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
Susan B. Anthony	Katharine Rolston Fisher	1918
Tired	Fenton Johnson	1920
The Indian Burying Ground	Philip Freneau	1795
Fool’s Gold	Ted Mathys	2020
The Contrast	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
The Modern Woman to Her Lover	Margaret Widdemer	1915
A New Spinning Song	Margaret Widdemer	1915
Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons	Alice Duer Miller	1915
The Woman of Charm	Alice Duer Miller	1915
A Bridge on Account of Sex: A Trans Woman Speaks to Susan B. Anthony on the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment	Joy Ladin	2020
A Miniature	Mary Jo Bang	2020
Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes	Jane Hirshfield	2020
Ask Me Why I Love You	Walter Everette Hawkins	1920
Because “Some Women Are	Sasha Pimentel	2017
A Guide To Usage: Mine	Monica Youn	2018
The Rats	Keetje Kuipers	2019
Insomnia Etiquette	Rita Dove	2012
Black Mythology	Jonathan Teklit	2019
Fractured	Hali Sofala-Jones	2019
Fort Night	Lisa Olstein	2019

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