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
I Ask My Mother to Sing	Li-Young Lee	2017
OBIT [The Blue Dress]	Victoria Chang	2018
The Laughing Child	W. S. Merwin	2016
The courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1954
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Riddle	Jericho Brown	2019
I Could Be a Whale Shark	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2018
Autumn Leaves	Marilyn Chin	1994
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born	Nicole Sealey	2017
The Blue Dress	Saeed Jones	2017
Lucky	Tony Hoagland	1998
My Mother, My Mother	Lue Hughes	2020
Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2019
Dementia Is a New Way to Be Buddhist	Kelli Russell Agodon	2025
Black Woman	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
Black Swan	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	2018
The Sky Over My Mother’s House	Jaime Manrique	2016
Parents	William Meredith	1980
Mermaid Song	Kim Addonizio	2000
La suavecita	Lupe Mendez	2021

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