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
Poem About My Life Mattering	Tawanda Mulalu	2022
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
Flora numérica/Numeric Flora	Mara Pastor, María José Giménez	2017
Dear Beth	Andrea Cote	2021
From “Defacing the Monument”	Susan Briante	2020
Sidewalk Rage	Pamela Sneed	2020
The Sun Went Down in Beauty	George Marion McClellan	2020
Afterward but not Afterword	A. Van Jordan	2020
Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field	Beth Ann Fennelly	2009
Tired	Fenton Johnson	1920
The Portent	Herman Melville	1859
Collude	Bhanu Kapil	2019
American Rome	Sandra Beasley	2018
Temple Example	Sally Ball	2018
You’re really faithful to your abusers, aren’t you?	Samiya Bashir	2018
Prayer	Judson Mitcham	2016
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve	Anne Boyer	2016
Detour of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument	Craig Santos Perez	2016
National Politics in Yellowstone Park, July 29, 1914	David Romtvedt	2016
Quaker Hill	Hart Crane	1930

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