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
Incendiary Art	Patricia Smith	2016
Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis Visits His Adoptive Parents After the War	Shane McCrae	2016
United	Naomi Shihab Nye	2016
Mess Hall	Solmaz Sharif	2016
Ghazal: America the Beautiful	Alicia Ostriker	2016
Dear America	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2016
from Things I Don’t Miss From My Youth	A. B. Spellman	2016
Antebellum	Gregory Pardlo	2016
America, I Sing Back	Allison Adelle Hedge Coke	2016
The Continental Army	Marilyn Nelson	2016
Microwave Popcorn	Harmony Holiday	2015
the bullet was a girl	Danez Smith	2015
The Tradition	Jericho Brown	2015
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
On Meeting Robert Hayden in a Dream	Abdul Ali	2015
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing]	Claudia Rankine	2014
From “Citizen,” IV [To live through the days sometimes you moan like deer]	Claudia Rankine	2014
In the Event	Joshua Weiner	2014
The Documents	Terence Winch	2014
Much Tattooed Sailor Aboard USS New Jersey	Jehanne Dubrow	2014

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