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
for you	Eileen Myles	2018
Children Listen	Roger Reeves	2018
Speak Now, Or Forever. Hold Your Peace.	Patricia Smith	2018
The Little Garden	Amy Lowell	2018
Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World	Martín Espada	2017
“I’m Rooting for Everybody Black”	Cortney Lamar Charleston	2018
The Kindness of Strangers	Sally Van Doren	2017
Past Barabbas	Roger Reeves	2017
Epilogue	Robert Browning	2017
Rosemary	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Old Manuscript	Alfred Kreymborg	2017
Socks	Margaret Ross	2017
Beauty	Elinor Wylie	2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Any day now you will have the ability to feed the name]	Terrance Hayes	2017
picking flowers	Nate Marshall	2017
as the owl augurs	Julian Talamantez Brolaski	2017
A Place in the Country	Toi Derricotte	2017
stonewall to standing rock	Julian Talamantez Brolaski	2016
Swan’s Elegy	Jaime Manrique	2016
Coventry Lake	Bruce Cohen	2016

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