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
Roses	Ellen Bass	2020
Artifacts on a Hanging Tree, Goliad, Texas (a series of 70 Mexican Lynchings, 1857)	Anthony Cody	2020
Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons	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
Sonnet	Alice Duer Miller	1915
How the Stars Understand Us	Christopher Gilbert	1984
Raindrops	Mrs. Minot Carter	1922
Not Everybody’s Bestiary (Yet)	Rebecca Morgan Frank	2019
Giveaway	Kim Shuck	2019
i know the grandmother one had hands	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
Exit Strategy	Kazim Ali	2019
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	Walt Whitman
An Army Corps on the March	Walt Whitman
Divergence	Diana Khoi Nguyen	2019
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's funeral and Completed on the first Day of the New Year	Dean Rader	2019
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [When James Baldwin & Audre Lorde each lend]	Terrance Hayes	2019
Cloud Hands	Arthur Sze	2019
I’m a Good Person Because My Childhood Was	Jan-Henry Gray	2019
Freedom	Saadi Youssef	2019
A Far Rockaway of the Heart, 2	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1997

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