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
Black Mother Woman (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1973
[untitled]	Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta	2020
Because People Ask What My Daughter Will Think of My Poems When She’s Sixteen	Beth Ann Fennelly	2008
What I Think About When Someone Uses “Pussy” as a Synonym for “Weak”	Beth Ann Fennelly	2017
attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]	Asiya Wadud	2020
Flight	Lee Herrick	2016
Holy Satyr	H.D.	1924
Practical People	Robinson Jeffers	1935
ars pasifika	Craig Santos Perez	2020
Lightning	Witter Bynner	1920
The End of a Nation	Don Mee Choi	2020
On Retirement	Philip Freneau	1786
Self-Portrait in the Time of Disaster	Deborah Paredez	2020
When White Hawks Come	dg nanouk okpik	2020
The Contrast	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
The Heart’s Astronomy	Julia Ward Howe	1854
Migration	Jenny George	2020
I Tried to Write a Poem Called “Imposter Syndrome” and Failed	Emilia Phillips	2020
19th Amendment Ragtime Parade	Marilyn Chin	2020
The Morning Star	Philip Matthews	2020

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