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
In her mostly white town, an hour from Rocky Mountain National Park, a black poet considers centuries of protests against racialized violence	Camille T. Dungy	2021
A Song of Hope	Charles Bertram Johnson	1921
On the Hills of Dawn	Alexander Posey	1910
The Index	Rena Priest	2020
In the Year of Permutations	Mai Der Vang	2020
Wonder Woman	Angelo Geter	2018
A New Year’s Greeting to a College Senior	George Marion McClellan	1916
Practical People	Robinson Jeffers	1935
Spring Thunder	Mark Van Doren	1924
Heritage Emissary	Threa Almontaser	2020
Galileo	Paul Tran	2020
Music	Alice Cary	1903
Brown Love	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha	2020
Foley Catheter	Kimberly Johnson	2020
We Always Have Been	Kim Shuck	2019
Once	Paisley Rekdal	2019
From “Stray Birds” [233—237]	Rabindranath Tagore	1921
An Army Corps on the March	Walt Whitman
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird	Walt Whitman
Poets! Towers of God!	Rubén Darío	1916

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