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
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
Three Mathew Brady Photographs	Eric Pankey	2014
Catawba Cotton Mill, 1908	David Wojahn	2014
The Buttonhook	Mary Jo Salter	2014
Non-lieux	Erika Meitner	2014
From “Citizen,” VI [My brothers are notorious]	Claudia Rankine	2014
From “Citizen,” I [A woman you do not know wants to join you for lunch]	Claudia Rankine	2014
To America	James Weldon Johnson	1917
valentine for Sally Hemings	Sojourner Ahebee	2014
Idaho	Matthew Zapruder	2014
Star in the Throat, Fire in the Cupboard	Catie Rosemurgy	2014
Black Laws	Roger Reeves	2013
Like Any Good American	Brynn Saito	2013
A House Divided	Kyle Dargan	2013
América	Richard Blanco	1998
The Blank of America	Terese Svoboda	2012

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