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 Consolation	Anne Brontë	1920
Self-Portrait as Combination Taco Bell / Pizza Hut / KFC	Aaron Tyler Hand	2024
Diagnostic Quiz for Human Ghost	James Fujinami Moore	2024
And We Shall Win!*	Mari Evans	2007
The 2022–2023 Laureate Fellows’ Collaborative Poem	Andru Defeye, Ashanti Files, B. K. Fischer, KaNikki Jakarta, Holly Karapetkova, Kealoha , Julia B. Levine , Matt Mason, Ray McNiece , Gailmarie Pahmeier, Rena Priest , Lynne Thompson, Emma Trelles , Gwen Westerman, Crystal Wilkinson	2023
After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks	Avni Vyas	2024
Theorem of Sorts	Mónica de la Torre	2023
The Empty Apartment	Tony Barnstone	2014
Refugees in Our Own Land	Laura Tohe	2004
In an Operating Room Outside of the Cis Woman’s Imagination	torrin a. greathouse	2019
Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking; Or, Essay of the Jordan Border Passage, in Notes)	Rickey Laurentiis	2023
A Vision of the End	Too-qua-stee	1899
EMDR	Tatiana Johnson-Boria	2023
Improvisational Score	Sawako Nakayasu	2014
us girls	S*an D. Henry-Smith	2023
Letter to al-Mutanabbi	Sinan Antoon	2023
Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns	Oliver de la Paz	2023
After	William Ernest Henley	1908
Mother	José Lezama Lima	2005
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, CXXI	Al-Ma‘arri	1920

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