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
Harmony	Aaron Fagan	2016
Detour of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument	Craig Santos Perez	2016
I Know You Think I've Forgotten	Jane Hirshfield	2015
From “Citizen,” V [Sometimes “I” is supposed to hold what is not there]	Claudia Rankine	2016
From “Pieces of Kate”	Eamon Grennan	2010
To Spring	Roger Greenwald	2016
O Esperanza!	Catherine Barnett	2016
Some Kinds of Forever Visit You	Brenda Hillman	2016
Tattoo	Nick Flynn	2016
Break	Aracelis Girmay	2016
From “The Black Maria”	Aracelis Girmay	2016
Water Grave	Mai Der Vang	2016
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things	Robert Frost	2016
In This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good and	Marianne Moore	2016
A Well Runs Out of Thirst	Jane Hirshfield	2015
The Heart Is a Foreign Country	Rangi McNeil	2016
The Poem	Alice Notley	2016
At Last	Christina Rossetti	2016
There Is a Bird in My Mouth	Natalie Scenters-Zapico	2015
Dear Millennium, Inadequate Witness	Karen An-Hwei Lee	2015

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