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
Your Soul and Mine	Fenton Johnson	1916
On a Honey Bee, Drinking from a Glass of Wine, and Drowned Therein	Philip Freneau	1809
The Vale of Malevolent Volume	Justin Phillip Reed	2020
Ghazal !يا لطيف (Ya Lateef!)	Marilyn Hacker	2020
Spring Morning	Marion Strobel	1922
The Contrast	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)	Aaron Coleman	2020
women’s voting rights at one hundred (but who’s counting?)	Evie Shockley	2020
Girls on the Town, 1946	Rita Dove	2020
A Bridge on Account of Sex: A Trans Woman Speaks to Susan B. Anthony on the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment	Joy Ladin	2020
At the End of the Endless Decade	Mark Bibbins	2020
Inheritance Cistern Sweet Dominion	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2020
Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes	Jane Hirshfield	2020
Foley Catheter	Kimberly Johnson	2020
Found Fragment on Ambition	David Tomas Martinez
Hello	Sean Hill	2019
Hottest June	Casandra López	2019
Ethiopia	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1987
Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah	Kenji C. Liu	2019
American Smooth	Rita Dove	2006

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