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 First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born	Nicole Sealey	2017
Apologue (1)	Maggie Smith	2017
Where Honey Comes From	Maggie Smith	2017
At the Metropolitan Museum	Matthew Siegel	2017
The Time Machine	Laura Kasischke	2017
His Speed and Strength	Alicia Ostriker	2016
Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath	Natasha Trethewey	2016
The Laughing Child	W. S. Merwin	2016
conflict with a god	María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado	2016
gathering words	María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado	2016
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

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