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
So shall I live, supposing thou art true (Sonnet 93)	William Shakespeare	1904
That god forbid that made me first your slave (Sonnet 58)	William Shakespeare	1904
So is it not with me as with that Muse (Sonnet 21)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Money	Eloisa Amezcua	2018
A Shropshire Lad, XII	A. E. Housman	1922
Picking and Choosing	Marianne Moore	1920
Workshop	Jacob Shores-Argüello	2018
Round 3	Eloisa Amezcua	2018
The Broken Man’s Permission	Aaron Coleman	2018
for you	Eileen Myles	2018
revision, impromptu	Fred Moten	2018
"In Youth I Have Known One"	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]	Kevin Young	2018
Amsterdam	Megan Fernandes	2018
You’re really faithful to your abusers, aren’t you?	Samiya Bashir	2018
The Silver Thread	Afaa Michael Weaver	2017
I guess it was my destiny to live so long	June Jordan	2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [But there never was a black male hysteria]	Terrance Hayes	2017
The Kindness of Strangers	Sally Van Doren	2017
The Persistence of Scent	Cindy Williams Gutiérrez	2017

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