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
Touched by Dusk, We Know Better Ourselves	Sasha Pimentel	2017
Tumbadora	Victor Hernández Cruz	2017
On Being Told Prayer Is a Crutch	Marcus Wicker	2017
Crescendo	Teri Ellen Cross Davis	2017
Americans at Yad Vashem	Amanda Hawkins	2017
Testimony	Hafizah Augustus Geter	2017
The Small Claim of Bones	Cindy Williams Gutiérrez	2017
Autobiography of a Nuyorican	Sandra María Esteves	2017
Mail-Order Planets	Adrian Matejka	2017
Ȟe Sápa, Five	Layli Long Soldier	2017
Ubi Sunt?	Laura Kasischke	2017
At Harlem Hospital across the street from the Schomburg the only thing to eat is a Big Mac	Samiya Bashir	2017
Plantation	Charif Shanahan	2016
Interpretation of a Poem by Frost	Thylias Moss	2016
For Joe	Sandra Simonds	2016
Shared Plight	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2016
White Lobelia	Stephanie Burt	2016
On Being Told I Look Like FLOTUS, New Year’s Eve Party 2014	January Gill O’Neil	2016
The Black Woman’s Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day	Douglas Kearney	2016
Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis Visits His Adoptive Parents After the War	Shane McCrae	2016

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