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
Outcast	Claude McKay	1922
Rasp, Spoon, and Pestle	Orlando Ricardo Menes	2019
Ars Poetica	Orlando Ricardo Menes	2019
Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death	Aisha al-Saifi	2019
from Aednan [X]	Linnéa Axelsson	2019
The scalps of the women with the best prophecies are dry this season	Ladan Osman	2019
Ekphrastifilia	Matt Rasmussen	2019
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's funeral and Completed on the first Day of the New Year	Dean Rader	2019
How to Lift Him	Ed Madden	2016
To Theodore	George Marion McClellan	1916
Ultrasound	Kaveh Akbar	2019
OBIT [The Clock]	Victoria Chang	2018
Nearly	Idra Novey	2019
Duplex	Jericho Brown	2019
From “A Brief History of Fathers Searching for Their Sons” [5. Portrait of a Father After His Son’s Memorial Service]	Rigoberto González	2019
From “A Brief History of Fathers Searching for Their Sons” [1. Parable]	Rigoberto González	2019
OBIT [Ambition]	Victoria Chang	2018
OBIT [Caretakers]	Victoria Chang	2018
Turnpike // Ghost	Hala Alyan	2019
Self-Portrait with Dad's Baseball Glove	Nathan Hoks	2019

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