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
Sonic Fireflies	Quincy Troupe	2021
Nothing to Declare	Lauren K. Alleyne	2021
In the High Country	David St. John	2021
Ship of Theseus	Rodney Gomez	2021
Rust Honey	Zach Savich	2020
Ozaagi’aan One Open to an Other	Margaret Noodin	2020
From “The Voice of Sheila Chandra”	Kazim Ali	2020
“I worked hard so my girls didn’t have to serve nobody else like I did except God”	Yona Harvey	2020
Poetry is This Screaming Madwoman	Giannina Braschi	1988
A Psalm for Emmett Till	Renée Watson	2020
Iris Song	Rickey Laurentiis	2020
on empathy	Bettina Judd	2020
The Puppet-Player	Angelina Weld Grimké	1923
Go Give the World	Otto Leland Bohanan	1919
What is Water?	Danielle Legros Georges	2020
The Sun Went Down in Beauty	George Marion McClellan	2020
Black Mother Woman (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1973
[untitled]	Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta	2020
What I Think About When Someone Uses “Pussy” as a Synonym for “Weak”	Beth Ann Fennelly	2017
What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness	Shane McCrae	2020

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