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
Envy	Emelihter Kihleng	2022
Remembering	Dana Naone Hall	2022
I Suffer a Phobia Called Hope	Maya Abu Al-Hayyat	2022
Dear Aleph,	Solmaz Sharif	2022
Divorce Song	Jameson Fitzpatrick	2022
In which stone was traced	Amanda Hernández	2016
The Dilettante: A Modern Type	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Young Bride	Langston Hughes	1926
Not They Who Soar	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Trap Music	David Tomas Martinez	2021
A Poem	Jos Charles	2021
Tawkwaymenahnah	Denise Lajimodiere	2021
Life is a Place Where it’s Forbidden to Live	Jackie Wang	2021
Margo	Fanny Howe	2021
A Black Pierrot	Langston Hughes	1924
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
The Cottonwood People	Melissa Kwasny	2017
The animal that is most vulnerable is usually the most cruel / It is impossible to separate it from what it remembers	Precious Okoyomon	2021
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

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