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
The Sky Over My Mother’s House	Jaime Manrique	2016
Sweet	Linda Gregerson	2016
Walking to Jerusalem	Philip Terman	2016
After the First Child, the Second	Mary Austin Speaker	2016
The Rookie	January Gill O’Neil	2016
Translation for Mamá	Richard Blanco	2016
Font	Linda Gregerson	2016
From the Peninsula	Ishion Hutchinson	2016
You Can't Build a Child	Sandra Simonds	2012
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing	Toi Derricotte	2012
My Mother's Name Lucha	Juan Felipe Herrera	2012
Wonder as Wander	Sharon Olds	2012
My Father’s Breed	Valzhyna Mort	2012
Secrets	Jim Moore	2012
For My Mother	May Sarton	2016
The Dream of Shoji	Kimiko Hahn	2016
Discrepancies Regarding My Mother’s Departure	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2016
Dear America	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2016
Migrant Earth	Deema K. Shehabi	2016
The Red Sweater	Joseph O. Legaspi	2016

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