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
Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode	Airea D. Matthews	2019
At The Corner of New Orleans and Frontier - At Disneyland	Matt Mason	2022
I Never Felt Comfortable in My Own Skin So I Made a New One	Xan Forest Phillips	2022
I, New York	Lam Lai	2022
Language of the Moon	Major Jackson	2022
Is Not (Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow)	Cyrus Cassells	2020
lower cased shells at the capital	Emanuelee Bean	2022
Memphis Blues	Sterling A. Brown	1922
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem	Helene Johnson	1922
The Face in the Rain	Elsa Gidlow	1923
To the "Flat Iron"	Sadakichi Hartmann	1904
Laughter in the Slums	Dudley Randall	2009
Constantinople	Ameen Rihani	1921
Reflections	Ameen Rihani	1921
The Towers and the Night	Ameen Rihani	1921
In the Palm Groves of Memphis	Ameen Rihani	1921
[The city breaks in houses to the sea, uneasy with waves,]	Charles Reznikoff	1920
The City	Nathalie Handal	2022
Imagining My Neighbor	Loretta Diane Walker	2022
Guitarrero!	Cyrus Cassells	2022

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