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
Family Solo	Eric Ekstrand	2020
Would It Kill Me to Be a Nicer Guy?	Raquel Gutiérrez	2020
The Thought of the World	Mark McMorris	2020
Melancholia	C. Dale Young	2020
The Transatlantic Progress of Sugar in the Eighteenth Century	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	2020
Lost Letter #1: Phillis Wheatley, Boston, to Susannah Wheatley, Boston*	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	2020
The Motorcycle Queen	Tyree Daye	2020
The Five Horses of Doctor Ramón Emeterio Betances	Martín Espada	2020
To the Country	Rubén Darío	1922
A Proclamation	Ashaki M. Jackson	2020
Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over	Joy Priest	2020
By Inch-Meal a Disease	Nabila Lovelace	2020
After Robert Fuller	Cheryl Boyce-Taylor	2020
When Puffy says, and we won’ t stop, 'cause we can’ t stop.	Rasheed Copeland	2020
Selah	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	2020
Social Death, an Address	Xan Forest Phillips	2019
Contemplating Extinction as Theme in Basquiat’s “Pez Dispenser, 1984”	Kristina Kay Robinson	2020
After a Reading of “Darkwater”	Elizabeth Curtis Holman	1920
Ironic: LL.D.	William Stanley Braithwaite	1922
From “A Coda to History”	Kwame Dawes, John Kinsella	2020

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