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
Darkness	John Crowe Ransom	1919
Midwife Cat	Mark Van Doren	1924
Sage #3	Marilyn Chin	2020
有識: Have Knowledge	Paisley Rekdal	2020
An Old Portrait	Margaret Widdemer	1915
Your Soul and Mine	Fenton Johnson	1916
A Mother to the War-Makers	Margaret Widdemer	1915
Palimpsest	Jared Carter
Artifacts on a Hanging Tree, Goliad, Texas (a series of 70 Mexican Lynchings, 1857)	Anthony Cody	2020
The Vale of Malevolent Volume	Justin Phillip Reed	2020
Spring Morning	Marion Strobel	1922
The Contrast	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)	Aaron Coleman	2020
What Governments Say to Women	Alice Duer Miller	1915
A Bridge on Account of Sex: A Trans Woman Speaks to Susan B. Anthony on the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment	Joy Ladin	2020
At the End of the Endless Decade	Mark Bibbins	2020
Inheritance Cistern Sweet Dominion	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2020
Vest	Jane Hirshfield	2020
the independence (of puerto rico)	Roque Raquel Salas Rivera	2020
Found Fragment on Ambition	David Tomas Martinez

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