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
Now He’s an Etching	Patricia Smith	2020
the pomegranate’s decimation	Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen	2020
Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial	Brenda Hillman	2020
Portland Parish / The Blue Mountains	C. S. Giscombe	2020
Time with Stevie Wonder in It	Christopher Gilbert	1984
Muriel Rukeyser as Energy	Christopher Gilbert	1984
Deserving	Terisa Siagatonu	2020
According to Herodotus	Brian Blanchfield	2014
The Spring Cricket Repudiates His Parable of Negritude	Rita Dove	2013
Giveaway	Kim Shuck	2019
Smuggling Cherokee	Kim Shuck	2019
From “Return to Tetaroba”	Steven Alvarez	2019
Grandmother	Grace Cavalieri	2019
for grandma	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
that boy from georgia is coming through here	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
A birthday tribute I	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
Eva I	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
Ars Poetica	Orlando Ricardo Menes	2019
The scalps of the women with the best prophecies are dry this season	Ladan Osman	2019
Can You Describe Your Years in Prison?	Aria Aber	2019

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