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
Artifacts on a Hanging Tree, Goliad, Texas (a series of 70 Mexican Lynchings, 1857)	Anthony Cody	2020
Self-Portrait in the Time of Disaster	Deborah Paredez	2020
On Doubt and Bad Reviews	Naomi Shihab Nye	2020
Words for Departure	Louise Bogan	1923
Why We Oppose Women Travelling in Railway Trains	Alice Duer Miller	1915
The Woman of Charm	Alice Duer Miller	1915
Sonnet	Alice Duer Miller	1915
Meditation on the Veranda	Carol Moldaw	2020
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
The Want of You	Angelina Weld Grimké	1923
Legacy	Megan Neville	2020
I Cannot Sing	Edward Nathaniel Harleston	1907
Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More	Matt Donovan	2019
Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border	Suji Kwock Kim	2019
Muddy	Orlando White	2019
Raindrops	Mrs. Minot Carter	1922
Coming	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	1898
Pickup	Alicia Ostriker	2019
Editor Whedon	Edgar Lee Masters	1916
Self-Portrait with Weeping Woman	Deborah Paredez	2019

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