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
Once the World Was Perfect	Joy Harjo	2018
What the Silence Said	Marie Howe	2021
Songs for the People	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1896
Counting, this New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me	Jane Hirshfield	2021
Good Grief	KB Brookins	2022
On the far side of pleasure	Samuel Ace	2026
Booker T. And W.E.B.	Dudley Randall	2009
for goldfish that remember seaworld	D’mani Thomas	2026
The Affliction	Marie Howe	2017
a brief meditation on breath	Yesenia Montilla	2020
A Shropsire Lad, IV	A. E. Housman	2018
If You Have Had Your Midnights	Mari Evans	2007
[The will to see oneself as fragile]	Tracy K. Smith	2023
Self and Life	George Eliot	1884
My earth which is mine will always make more of itself	Kamelya Omayma Youssef	2026
Jaguar Song	Arthur Sze	2021
Jesus in the Wilderness	Malika Booker	2024
Interview	Jordan Kapono Nakamura	2024
Survival Guide	Joy Ladin	2018
Anchorage	Joy Harjo	2016

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