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
At Husking Time	Emily Pauline Johnson	1917
Awakening	Luis G. Dato	1926
I’ve Got the Covid Blues	Tony Medina	2022
Summer Wind	William Cullen Bryant	1878
Shorn, treaded red	Asiya Wadud	2022
Song of My Muhammad	Ashley M. Jones	2019
Odyssey of Big Boy	Sterling A. Brown	1922
The Face in the Rain	Elsa Gidlow	1923
Transformation & Escape	Gregory Corso	1960
Dusk Song	William H. A. Moore	1922
The Spring Has Many Silences	Laura Riding Jackson	1925
Song of Perfect Propriety	Dorothy Parker	1926
It Bruises, Too	Kwame Dawes	2022
Disillusion	Langston Hughes	1926
Identity & Community (There is no “I” in “Sea”)	Brenda Shaughnessy	2019
UPON Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, 2021. / DOUBLE SONNET after A.J., C.S.D., C.G., J.B., D.R., P.C., M.B., K.G., K.W., M.E., K.B., E.G., M.D. & R.S.	Ronaldo V. Wilson	2021
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
Hickory Street, New Orleans	Yona Harvey	2020
November	Lynna Odel	2020
The Famous Tay Whale	William McGonagall	1890

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