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
City of Ships	Walt Whitman
Virginia—The West	Walt Whitman
Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps	Walt Whitman
Song of the Banner at Daybreak	Walt Whitman
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird	Walt Whitman
The Damned: Our Blue Yodel No. 9	Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley	2019
First O Songs for a Prelude	Walt Whitman
They Don’t Love You Like I Love You	Natalie Diaz	2019
Collude	Bhanu Kapil	2019
I hope to God you will not ask	Esther Belin	2019
To the Negro Farmers of the United States	Alice Dunbar-Nelson	2019
At a Days Inn in Barstow, California	Chloe Honum	2019
Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror	Kelli Russell Agodon	2019
Common Things	Christopher Kondrich	2019
Flyover Country	Caki Wilkinson	2019
I-797-C	Jan-Henry Gray	2019
from EXAQUA [I've begun to grow fatigued.]	Jan-Henry Gray	2019
Time of Tyranny, 49	Lyn Hejinian	2019
The Wound Before the Tomb of Walt Whitman	Fernando Valverde	2019
Protection	Sarah Gambito	2019

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