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
Rulers	Fenton Johnson	1918
Oh, for a Little While Be Kind	Countee Cullen	1925
Hope is a Bruise	Dasha Kelly Hamilton	2021
UPON Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, 2021. / DOUBLE SONNET after A.J., C.S.D., C.G., J.B., D.R., P.C., M.B., K.G., K.W., M.E., K.B., E.G., M.D. & R.S.	Ronaldo V. Wilson	2021
Sea Slant	Carl Sandburg	1922
Grace Among the Ferns	Analicia Sotelo	2021
The Birthday Interviews	Derrick Austin	2021
The New Brain	Alice Notley	2020
Origin Story	Leah Naomi Green	2021
The Coming Of Fox	Lucille Clifton	1996
Ex(ile)	Desiree C. Bailey	2021
Aubade at the City of Change	Aldo Amparán	2021
In the Vault of Morning	Canisia Lubrin	2021
Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street	Momtaza Mehri	2021
The New Decade	Hieu Minh Nguyen	2020
Distracted from COVID-19, Attention Shifts to MIA Maiden from Land O’Lakes Butter Box	Tiffany Midge	2020
The Seven Prisms of My Blood	Khaty Xiong	2020
Still Life with Toy Gun	Joshua Bennett	2020
Flying Down the Five	heidi andrea restrepo rhodes	2020
Anniversary	Diannely Antigua	2020

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