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
The Slave Auction	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
From “Simple Verses”	José Martí	2005
Social Distancing	Juan Felipe Herrera	2020
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War	Joy Harjo	2019
New American	Huascar Medina	2020
if found, then measured	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2019
These Poems	June Jordan	1977
Twenty-One Love Poems [Poem III]	Adrienne Rich	2016
América	Richard Blanco	1998
I Know My Soul	Claude McKay	2015
The Portrait	Stanley Kunitz	1991
City that Does Not Sleep	Federico García Lorca	1973
Manhattan is a Lenape Word	Natalie Diaz	2020
To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere	Luisa A. Igloria	2018
From “Grandmother’s Garden”	Meena Alexander	2020
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne]	William Shakespeare	1623
Before You Came	Faiz Ahmed Faiz	1991
To My Mother	Edgar Allan Poe	1849
October	Evalyn Callahan Shaw	2019
From “The Kitten and Falling Leaves”	William Wordsworth	1804

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