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
Biographies	Dorothy Parker	1926
In the Meantime	Max Garland	2021
Unto Ourselves: to See What’s There	Forrest Gander	2021
Brown Girl Creed	Barbara Jane Reyes	2021
Bread and Wine	Countee Cullen
Monotony	Langston Hughes	1923
Orchard	Luisa A. Igloria	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
The Dance of Love	Countee Cullen	1925
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks	Countee Cullen	1925
Dog Park	Brandon Brown	2020
Elegy for the Disappeared	Forrest Gander	2020
poetry is a temporal art	Julian Talamantez Brolaski	2020
Driving at Night	Rio Cortez	2020
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1922
In the Year of Permutations	Mai Der Vang	2020
First Warm Day in a College Town	Beth Ann Fennelly	2008
A New Year’s Greeting to a College Senior	George Marion McClellan	1916
A Psyche of Spring	George Marion McClellan	1916
The Murderess	Alice Cary	1903

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