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
Bring Back Our Girls	Marwa Helal	2018
The Weavers Were the First to Know	Arielle Taitano Lowe	2022
Never Again	Pamela Sneed	2020
How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way	Martín Espada	2018
From “Citizen,” VI [My brothers are notorious]	Claudia Rankine	2014
America, I Am	James Cagney	2022
Breathe. As in. (shadow)	Rosamond S. King	2019
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With	torrin a. greathouse	2021
A Vision of the End	Too-qua-stee	1899
Thoughts in Jail	Katharine Rolston Fisher	1918
To Susan B. Anthony on her eightieth birthday	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	1900
Song of Myself, 37	Walt Whitman	1891
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto III, LI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
The Story of Everything	Kealoha	2018
Voting-Machine	Maggie Smith	2020
Ghazal !يا لطيف (Ya Lateef!)	Marilyn Hacker	2020
Unrest in Baton Rouge	Tracy K. Smith	2018
What Do We Do—Now	Ellen Hagan	2017
what the dead know by heart	Donte Collins	2016
In an Operating Room Outside of the Cis Woman’s Imagination	torrin a. greathouse	2019

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