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
But be contented: when that fell arrest (Sonnet 74)	William Shakespeare	1904
13 Questions for the Next Economy	Susan Briante	2018
The Anxious Dead	John McCrae	2018
Perennials	Maggie Smith	2018
No Longer Ode	Urayoán Noel	2018
In the Home Stretch	Robert Frost	2018
A Single Woman’s Bedroom	Yi Lei	2018
Unrest in Baton Rouge	Tracy K. Smith	2018
I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise	Diane Seuss	2018
Opening the Hands between Here and Here	Jane Hirshfield	2011
In the Beginning God Said Light	Mary Szybist	2018
Elegy with Icarus and the Heart of a Hummingbird	James Hoch	2018
Another Night at Sea Level	Meg Day	2017
Not Doing Something Wrong Isn't the Same as Doing Something Right	Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz	2017
Thanksgiving in the Anthropocene, 2015	Craig Santos Perez	2017
The World	Jennifer Chang	2017
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades	June Jordan	2017
Late Summer	James Brasfield	2017
Sunday Morning 9/16/01	Lucille Clifton	2017
The City is Peopled	H.D.	2017

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