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
what we did while waiting for the rain	Afua Ansong	2022
Abraham Lincoln Turns to Listen to the Lower Ninth	Monifa Love	2022
Ore Choir: The Priest Questions the Lava	Katy Didden	2022
By the Lake	Richard O. Moore	2010
Itinerary	Richard O. Moore	2010
A Poem for Maunakea	Kealoha	2019
Courage Song for Scott Warren	Cyrus Cassells	2022
What It Means To Say Sally Hemings	Ashley M. Jones	2016
lower cased shells at the capital	Emanuelee Bean	2022
This Side Up	Emanuelee Bean	2019
The Only Place in the U.S. with Zero COVID Deaths	Terisa Siagatonu	2022
A Road for Loss	Maya Abu Al-Hayyat	2022
Western Civ 101	Alexandria Peary	2022
Constantinople	Ameen Rihani	1921
The Cataclysm	Ameen Rihani	1921
The End and the Beginning	Ameen Rihani	1921
The Towers and the Night	Ameen Rihani	1921
sea of the poem (an annex so we may dream backwards)	Roque Raquel Salas Rivera	2022
julia keleher confesses she believes in the end of history	Roque Raquel Salas Rivera	2022
Reinforcements	Marianne Moore	1918

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