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
Doll Photographer	Claire Millikin	2021
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XLIX)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XLVI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XXXVIII)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, IX)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto I, XXVI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
Thirst Petition	Farid Matuk	2025
Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories	Justin Rovillos Monson	2025
Centaur over Tomer Butte	Robert Wrigley	2025
Angels with Guns Guarding the Gates of Heaven	Richard Michelson	2023
The Talking Coconut	Ed Morales	2024
Mendocino	Clarence Major	2002
A Brief History of E. A. Robinson and the Train Station in Gardiner, Maine	Abbie Kiefer	2024
When My Daughter Wasn’t Assaulted	Amanda Johnston	2017
Sixteen Years to the Day Another Hurricane Reverses	Nicole Cooley	2023
Six Long Hours in Los Angeles	Leonard Bacon	1927
From “Take Me Back, Burden Hill”	L. Lamar Wilson	2024
The Arab Crosses into Los Estados Unidos	Philip Metres	2024
With My Redneck Sons in Southern Indiana	Willis Barnstone	2015
Prayer for 2018	Cecilia Woloch	2024

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