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
Maria Clara	Luis G. Dato	1926
If There Is Another World	Malena Mörling	2006
Youth	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
The Face in the Rain	Elsa Gidlow	1923
The Weavers Were the First to Know	Arielle Taitano Lowe	2022
Social Note	Dorothy Parker	1926
I Know I Have Been Happiest	Dorothy Parker	1926
On “Phantasmagorique #15,” a Painting by Kathy Goodell	Garrett Hongo	2022
Why I Write Poetry	Leah Kindler	2022
Upstream	Carl Sandburg	1922
In her mostly white town, an hour from Rocky Mountain National Park, a black poet considers centuries of protests against racialized violence	Camille T. Dungy	2021
A Song of Hope	Charles Bertram Johnson	1921
On the Hills of Dawn	Alexander Posey	1910
The Index	Rena Priest	2020
Soy Boricua	Giannina Braschi	2011
In the Year of Permutations	Mai Der Vang	2020
A New Year’s Greeting to a College Senior	George Marion McClellan	1916
On Growth	Rae Armantrout	2020
Roses	Ellen Bass	2020
Heritage Emissary	Threa Almontaser	2020

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