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
Center of the World	Safiya Sinclair	2016
From “Citizen,” VI [My brothers are notorious]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Now I Get It	Fanny Howe	2014
The Magpie's Shadow	Yvor Winters	1922
To My Best Friend's Big Sister	Ross Gay	2013
from Manatee/Humanity [1]	Anne Waldman	2009
For N & K	Gina Myers	2012
Twenty Questions	Jim Moore	2012
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?]	William Shakespeare	1600
My life has been the poem I would have writ	Henry David Thoreau	1849
Poem [The wind tears up the sun]	James Schuyler	1993
Poem [This beauty that I see]	James Schuyler	1993
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata	Natasha Trethewey	2012
At the Equinox	Arthur Sze	2011
Here and Now	Stephen Dunn	2011
We Manage Most When We Manage Small	Linda Gregg	2008
A Situation for Mrs. Biswas	Prageeta Sharma	2010
In the Village	Derek Walcott	2010
Epitaph on a Hare	William Cowper	1783
Come, said my Soul	Walt Whitman	1874

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