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
Misgivings	Herman Melville	1860
The Respectable Folks	Henry David Thoreau	1895
The Damned: Our Blue Yodel No. 9	Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley	2019
I hope to God you will not ask	Esther Belin	2019
To the Negro Farmers of the United States	Alice Dunbar-Nelson	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
The Wound Before the Tomb of Walt Whitman	Fernando Valverde	2019
Protection	Sarah Gambito	2019
The Persistence of Symptoms	Janine Joseph	2019
I’m a Good Person Because My Childhood Was	Jan-Henry Gray	2019
if found, then measured	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2019
The Night the Rain Had Nowhere to Go	William Woolfitt	2019
From “The Sky Forever” [to say your land vanished]	Kimberly Alidio	2019
Half Poem	Maya Pindyck	2018
Collaborators	Keetje Kuipers	2019
P̶R̶O̶M̶E̶S̶A̶	Joey De Jesus	2018
Customer Loyalty Program	Brandon Amico	2018
D(r)one	Richard Hoffman	2018

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