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
To a No. 2 Yellow Pencil on May 1, 2020	Kimiko Hahn	2020
Self	James Oppenheim	1916
A History of Domestication	Sun Yung Shin	2020
Crossing	John Warner Smith	2015
Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field	Beth Ann Fennelly	2009
Because People Ask What My Daughter Will Think of My Poems When She’s Sixteen	Beth Ann Fennelly	2008
Ars Poetica (Excerpt from “Telling the Gospel Truth”)	Beth Ann Fennelly	2004
The Gift	Alexandria Peary	2011
First Warm Day in a College Town	Beth Ann Fennelly	2008
What I Think About When Someone Uses “Pussy” as a Synonym for “Weak”	Beth Ann Fennelly	2017
The Egyptian Tomb of Emily Dickinson	Alexandria Peary	2008
Ode to Butter	Beth Ann Fennelly	2020
Shelter in Place	Tina Cane	2020
Youngest Son	Tina Cane	2019
All Black Boys Look Alike	John Warner Smith	2019
Sisters Mourning	John Warner Smith	2015
Stars	John Warner Smith	2016
Moving Men	John Warner Smith	2016
Renaissance Man	John Warner Smith	2018
Wish List	Tina Cane	2017

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