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
Song of Perfect Propriety	Dorothy Parker	1926
The False Friends	Dorothy Parker	1926
Oak Park Mutters Statistics	Kyla Pereles	2022
Snow in October	Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Acedia Sestina	Rohan Chhetri	2022
Winter with the Gulf Stream	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1863
Field Guide Ending in a Deportation	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2018
Offering	Donika Kelly	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
From “Đổi Mới”	Diana Khoi Nguyen	2021
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
The blue nightgown	Toi Derricotte	2021
Realization	Marilyn Nelson	2021
There Will Be No Funeral	Janice Lobo Sapigao	2021
Becoming a Ghost	Tanaya Winder	2020
Marshlands	Emily Pauline Johnson	1895
From “The Voice of Sheila Chandra”	Kazim Ali	2020
Where There’s Ice	Paul Celan	2020
For my Brother(s)	Lauren K. Alleyne	2020
Go Give the World	Otto Leland Bohanan	1919

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