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
badlands: a song of flux, out of time	Lee Ann Roripaugh	2016
[There are forces that twist the tops of us like pliers.]	Leslie Sainz	2026
Blues Franchise	David Henderson	2024
making life on a palette	Raina J. León	2024
Refugees in Our Own Land	Laura Tohe	2004
Midnight Air in Louisville	Afaa Michael Weaver	2022
Diary from an AIDS Ward, 1984	Magdalena Gómez	2017
The Stone Fleet	Herman Melville	1866
At Memphis Station	Johannes V. Jensen	1922
Poem About My Life Mattering	Tawanda Mulalu	2022
Dear Aleph,	Solmaz Sharif	2022
UPON Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, 2021. / DOUBLE SONNET after A.J., C.S.D., C.G., J.B., D.R., P.C., M.B., K.G., K.W., M.E., K.B., E.G., M.D. & R.S.	Ronaldo V. Wilson	2021
In her mostly white town, an hour from Rocky Mountain National Park, a black poet considers centuries of protests against racialized violence	Camille T. Dungy	2021
Sidewalk Rage	Pamela Sneed	2020
Battlegrounds	Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo	2020
Measured	Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon	2020
Hangul Abecedarian	Franny Choi	2020
I’m a Good Person Because My Childhood Was	Jan-Henry Gray	2019
It Was Summer Now and the Colored People Came Out Into the Sunshine	Morgan Parker	2018
Ritual Object	Tsitsi Ella Jaji	2018

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