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
This Place of Broken Words	Lois Roma-Deeley	2024
On the death of Claribel Alegria, 1924–2018	Patricia Spears Jones	2023
The Hills are Writing	Isha Camara	2024
To Doña Serros From Bespectacled Joven	Joseph Rios	2017
Another Poem About a Mountain	Joseph Rios	2019
Day Drinking at the End of Days	Alison Pelegrin	2023
Self-Portrait as 70s Childhood	Alison Pelegrin	2023
Love Poem Starting and Ending with Couplets Borrowed From the First Book on Electric Lighting	Jean Prokott	2022
As I Stand on a Paddle Board for the First Time in June, I Plan for October’s Eclipse	Alison Pelegrin	2023
Bowing in the Church of Beauty	Amanda Johnston	2007
When My Daughter Wasn’t Assaulted	Amanda Johnston	2017
Circe’s Love Song	Georgia A. Popoff	2019
Joy Is Earned	Charlotte Pence	2020
Some Madness There	Charlotte Pence	2020
The Last Morning in the Country	Leonora Speyer	1921
& When They Come for Me (Reprise)	Golden	2024
Thinking about “The Little Mermaid” in the Waiting Room of the Otolaryngology Department	Arianna Monet	2024
April on the Battlefields	Leonora Speyer	1921
Coachella Elegy	Christian Gullette	2024
I’ll Be Your Epitaph!	Leonora Speyer	1922

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