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
October	Evalyn Callahan Shaw	2019
who will be the messenger of this land	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson	Robin Coste Lewis	2017
[ t h e ] n o r t h [ e r n ] [ o f ] i r e l a n d	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2019
Amores (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Publicity	Ada Limón	2018
Against my love shall be, as I am now (Sonnet 63)	William Shakespeare	1904
The other two, slight air and purging fire (Sonnet 45)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Women’s Litany	Margaret Widdemer	2018
The Demiurge’s Laugh	Robert Frost	1915
[In a dream I spoke with the Cyprus-born]	Sappho	1907
All of Us	Erika L. Sánchez	2018
Childhood in the Latin Caribbean	Victor Hernández Cruz	2017
The Everlasting Voices	W. B. Yeats	2017
Hummingbird	Robin Becker	2017
Kin to Sorrow	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
badlands: a song of flux, out of time	Lee Ann Roripaugh	2016
The Secret in the Mirror	Alberto Ríos	2016
Bleeding	May Swenson	2016
The Visitors of Night	Frank Stanford	2016

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