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
This Is What Makes Us Worlds	Joshua Jennifer Espinoza	2017
A Prayer to Talk to Animals	Nickole Brown	2017
Looking at My Father	Wendy Xu	2017
From a Park Bench	Patricia Hooper	2017
Ȟe Sápa, One	Layli Long Soldier	2017
Pine	Susan Stewart	2016
V-Neck T-Shirt Sonnet	Joseph O. Legaspi	2016
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power (Sonnet 126)	William Shakespeare	2016
The Cry	Paisley Rekdal	2016
Another Poem	Geoffrey G. O’Brien	2015
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
For Telly the Fish	Toi Derricotte	2011
song in the backyard: a golden shovel for Rihanna (audio only)	Evie Shockley	2013
From “Gabriel” [The evening with its lamps burning]	Edward Hirsch	2014
Congregation	Parneshia Jones	2014
Mag	Carl Sandburg	1916
A Love	Lorenzo Calogero	2013
The Boston Evening Transcript	T. S. Eliot	1920
The Wound-Dresser	Walt Whitman	1891
Camp of No Return	James Tate	2012

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