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
The Forms of Love	George Oppen	1975
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems	James Tate	1991
every little meth	Abraham Smith	2007
we both split	Abraham Smith	2007
whim man mammon	Abraham Smith	2007
Sentimental Atom Smasher	Darcie Dennigan	2008
The Feeling of the World as a Bounded Whale Is the Mystical [The child affixes]	Darcie Dennigan	2008
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [The Wendy girl]	Jenny Boully	2008
Title It Shotgun Wound	Gregory Pardlo	2007
Copyright	Gregory Pardlo	2008
Atlantic City Sunday Morning	Gregory Pardlo	2007
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley	Jupiter Hammon	1787
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Early Affection	George Moses Horton	1865
George Moses Horton, Myself	George Moses Horton	1865
America	James Monroe Whitfield	1853
Bible Defence of Slavery	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1851
Learning to Read	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]	Jenny Boully	2008
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008

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