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
Orchard	Luisa A. Igloria	2020
Fox	Lucille Clifton	1996
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
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks	Countee Cullen	1925
Elegy for the Disappeared	Forrest Gander	2020
Driving at Night	Rio Cortez	2020
I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money	Tongo Eisen-Martin	2020
sonnet for the long second act	Evie Shockley	2020
In the Year of Permutations	Mai Der Vang	2020
Joy	Robinson Jeffers	1935
A New Year’s Greeting to a College Senior	George Marion McClellan	1916
Lethe	H.D.	1924
To Sir Toby	Philip Freneau	1795
Monotone	Carl Sandburg	1916
Remember the Boys	Rachel McKibbens	2020
Dear Buffalo, Dear Zeta or To a Few of My Dead or Nearly Dead Tíos	Joseph Rios	2019
Raindrops	Mrs. Minot Carter	1922
Blood History	Reginald Dwayne Betts	2019
The Armies of the Wilderness	Herman Melville	1864
A Winter Scene	Henry David Thoreau	1895

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