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
Conscience and Remorse	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Troubled Woman	Langston Hughes	1926
From “Autobiography of My Alter Ego”	Yusef Komunyakaa	2022
three Black poems from August	Danez Smith	2021
Visa	Solmaz Sharif	2021
A Distant Song	John Gould Fletcher	1913
Angelhair	Angela Jackson	1998
From “Đổi Mới”	Diana Khoi Nguyen	2021
And That Fast, You’re Thinking About Their Bodies	Threa Almontaser	2020
The Coming Of Fox	Lucille Clifton	1996
Fruit of the Flower	Countee Cullen	1925
Two Who Crossed a Line	Countee Cullen	1925
Aubade at the City of Change	Aldo Amparán	2021
Pedal	Jenny Johnson	2020
On the Hills of Dawn	Alexander Posey	1910
The Index	Rena Priest	2020
“I worked hard so my girls didn’t have to serve nobody else like I did except God”	Yona Harvey	2020
Where There’s Ice	Paul Celan	2020
So They Say— They Finally Nailed— the Proton’s Size— & Hope— Dies—	Rosebud Ben-Oni	2020
The Check In	Nandi Comer	2020

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