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
Homestead National Monument	Twyla M. Hansen	2016
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	2016
Rapture	Martha Ronk	2016
Interpretation of a Poem by Frost	Thylias Moss	2016
The First Layer of City	Marianne Boruch	2016
Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait	Mary Hickman	2016
Grief’s Weird Sister, Gratitude	Jennifer Michael Hecht	2016
Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis Visits His Adoptive Parents After the War	Shane McCrae	2016
You Can't Build a Child	Sandra Simonds	2012
Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea [Excerpt]	Dunya Mikhail	2016
Antebellum	Gregory Pardlo	2016
Eighteenth Century Remains	Tess Taylor	2016
Wild Night	Marilyn Nelson	2016
Miracle in the Collection Plate	Marilyn Nelson	2016
Sisters of Charity	Marilyn Nelson	2016
Counting Blessings	Marilyn Nelson	2016
Professor Hesser, Music Lessons	Marilyn Nelson	2016
Land Owner	Marilyn Nelson	2016
1905	Marilyn Nelson	2015
On Meeting Robert Hayden in a Dream	Abdul Ali	2015

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