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
At the Lindens Shiver in Autumn Dreams	Sadakichi Hartmann	1904
Reflections	Ameen Rihani	1921
Vinegar Hill	Colm Tóibín	2022
Song of Perfect Propriety	Dorothy Parker	1926
The False Friends	Dorothy Parker	1926
Snow in October	Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Winter with the Gulf Stream	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1863
Field Guide Ending in a Deportation	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2018
A Poem	Jos Charles	2021
UPON Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, 2021. / DOUBLE SONNET after A.J., C.S.D., C.G., J.B., D.R., P.C., M.B., K.G., K.W., M.E., K.B., E.G., M.D. & R.S.	Ronaldo V. Wilson	2021
How Near to Fairyland	Yone Noguchi	1921
In her mostly white town, an hour from Rocky Mountain National Park, a black poet considers centuries of protests against racialized violence	Camille T. Dungy	2021
Near the End of April	William Stanley Braithwaite	1904
Realization	Marilyn Nelson	2021
It was Snowing on the Monuments	Gordon Henry	2020
Self-Portrait as the Changeling	Halee Kirkwood	2020
Marshlands	Emily Pauline Johnson	1895
Where There’s Ice	Paul Celan	2020
Governor’s Mansion Hands	Sean Hill	2020
Why I don’t write about George Floyd	Toi Derricotte	2020

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