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
Reading to My Father	Jorie Graham	2016
On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë	Charlotte Brontë	2016
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet	Danez Smith	2016
Elegy	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2016
lynch	Martha Collins	2016
Hearing of Alia Muhammed Baker’s Stroke	Philip Metres	2016
A Theory of Violence	Jennifer Perrine	2016
from Forgetting Willie James Jones	David Tomas Martinez	2016
Notes on a Mass Stranding	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2016
Why I Don’t Mention Flowers When Conversations with My Brother Reach Uncomfortable Silences	Natalie Diaz	2016
Anonymous Song	Fady Joudah	2016
All the Trees of the Field Shall Clap Their Hands	Eduardo C. Corral	2016
Faith	Tim Seibles	2016
Zombie Blues Villanelle	Tim Seibles	2016
The Carousel	Zachary Schomburg	2016
Erstling	Cynthia Cruz	2016
Yellow Rain	Mai Der Vang	2016
Water Grave	Mai Der Vang	2016
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done]	William Shakespeare	2016
Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter]	William Shakespeare	2016

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