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
Round 3	Eloisa Amezcua	2018
The Broken Man’s Permission	Aaron Coleman	2018
for you	Eileen Myles	2018
revision, impromptu	Fred Moten	2018
"In Youth I Have Known One"	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]	Kevin Young	2018
Housing Conditions of One Hundred Fifty Chippewa Families	Kimberly Blaeser	2018
Fannie Lou Hamer	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2018
The End of a Beginning	Marilyn Chin	1987
Amsterdam	Megan Fernandes	2018
You’re really faithful to your abusers, aren’t you?	Samiya Bashir	2018
The Word	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1906
The Silver Thread	Afaa Michael Weaver	2017
Today Is a Photograph	Hafizah Augustus Geter	2017
Mount Shasta	John Rollin Ridge	2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [But there never was a black male hysteria]	Terrance Hayes	2017
The Persistence of Scent	Cindy Williams Gutiérrez	2017
Rosemary	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
In Defense of “Candelabra with Heads”	Nicole Sealey	2017
The End	D. H. Lawrence	2017

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