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
Ghazal: America the Beautiful	Alicia Ostriker	2016
not an elegy for Mike Brown	Danez Smith	2016
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet	Danez Smith	2016
Ways to Be White in a Poem	Ailish Hopper	2016
Race/Race	Martha Collins	2016
Dressing Down	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2016
Manchild	Cornelius Eady	2016
At the Mall, There’s a Machine That Tells You If You Are Racist	Karen Skolfield	2016
Twinkle, Twinkle, Morning Star	Craig Santos Perez	2016
From “The Black Maria”	Aracelis Girmay	2016
A Queerification	Regie Cabico	2016
Canyon of Heroines	Trace Peterson	2016
[we fight back to control the outside]	kari edwards	2016
[exchanging water for wealth]	kari edwards	2016
[the broken pleasure of marching]	kari edwards	2016
[stories from across the ocean]	kari edwards	2016
Song for the Festival	Gretchen Marquette	2016
Long Night Full Moon	D. A. Powell	2016
71. Realizing Lucy	Ronaldo V. Wilson	2016
Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight	Jane Hirshfield	1997

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