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
In the Middle of the Burning	Canisia Lubrin	2020
American Girl Dolls Attend Mandatory Diversity Training	Kortney Morrow	2020
I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money	Tongo Eisen-Martin	2020
a brief meditation on breath	Yesenia Montilla	2020
Untethered	Allison Joseph	2020
Why I don’t write about George Floyd	Toi Derricotte	2020
Contemplating Extinction as Theme in Basquiat’s “Pez Dispenser, 1984”	Kristina Kay Robinson	2020
I Can’t Breathe	Pamela Sneed	2020
From “A Coda to History”	Kwame Dawes, John Kinsella	2020
The Flowering Face	Kevin Killian	1997
Sequelae (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1978
Power (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1978
Chain (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1978
In the Year of Permutations	Mai Der Vang	2020
ars poetica	Aldrin Regina Valdez	2020
All Black Boys Look Alike	John Warner Smith	2019
Mexican American Sublime	Rodney Gomez	2020
Their Bodies a Xylophone	Rodney Gomez	2018
Militants to Certain Other Women	Katharine Rolston Fisher	1918
Thoughts in Jail	Katharine Rolston Fisher	1918

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