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
The Park	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1921
Substitution	Anne Spencer	1927
To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mother’s Garden	Brenda Hillman	2022
On Reading Allen Ginsberg’s “Homework”	Andrea Carter Brown	2022
Oh, I’m Dying, I’m Dying,	Janine Joseph	2022
Ecclesiastes: Thirteen-Year Cicada	Marissa Davis	2022
Love Poem with Bighead	Kaveh Akbar	2022
The White-headed Woodpecker	Sean Hill	2021
Anne	CMarie Fuhrman	2021
The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer	Hoa Nguyen	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
Near the End of April	William Stanley Braithwaite	1904
It was Snowing on the Monuments	Gordon Henry	2020
Words for Departure	Louise Bogan	1923
Ode to the Whitman Line “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d”	Kimiko Hahn	2019
Raindrops	Mrs. Minot Carter	1922
While Waiting for the Bus	Eliot Khalil Wilson	2019
A Skull	Dana Levin	2019
No, Kanye, it’s not LIKE we’re mentally in prison	Erica Dawson	2019
Becoming Ghost	Cathy Linh Che	2018

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