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
Where Is She ::: Koté Li Yé	R. Erica Doyle	2018
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Spoiled Child	Pages Matam	2019
Bring Back Our Girls	Marwa Helal	2018
32-inch Aubade with Captions	Meg Day	2026
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto III, LI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With	torrin a. greathouse	2021
Power (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1978
Unrest in Baton Rouge	Tracy K. Smith	2018
Where I Am Not	Omar Sakr	2019
So Many	JD Pluecker	2019
America, I Am	James Cagney	2022
Black Dandelion	Semaj Brown	2019
for goldfish that remember seaworld	D’mani Thomas	2026
The Weavers Were the First to Know	Arielle Taitano Lowe	2022
The Protected Sex	Alice Duer Miller	1915
My Love Is Black	DéLana R. A. Dameron	2018
A Vision of the End	Too-qua-stee	1899
Quotidian	Natasha Trethewey	2021
To Susan B. Anthony on her eightieth birthday	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	1900

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