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
And That Fast, You’re Thinking About Their Bodies	Threa Almontaser	2020
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
Poem [Being walkers with the dawn and morning]	Langston Hughes	1925
The New Moon	Langston Hughes	1922
For a Poet	Countee Cullen	1925
Pier 52	Omotara James	2021
Ship of Theseus	Rodney Gomez	2021
Radix, Matrix	Paul Celan	2020
Soy Boricua	Giannina Braschi	2011
breathe we	Juan Felipe Herrera	2020
Woman in Dub	Desiree C. Bailey	2020
The Lynching	Claude McKay	1922
In the Year of Permutations	Mai Der Vang	2020
Good Man	Angelo Geter	2018
A New Year’s Greeting to a College Senior	George Marion McClellan	1916
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
Remember the Boys	Rachel McKibbens	2020
Alice Paul	Katharine Rolston Fisher	2019
Nine Haiku	TC Tolbert	2019
Haunted	Siegfried Sassoon	1917

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