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
This Little Light of Mine Speaks	Crystal Valentine	2020
When Puffy says, and we won’ t stop, 'cause we can’ t stop.	Rasheed Copeland	2020
Harriet (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1978
From The House Of Yemanjá (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1978
did-you-just-say-thang theory	Tiana Reid	2020
Lost and Found	Honey Bell-Bey	2016
Because People Ask What My Daughter Will Think of My Poems When She’s Sixteen	Beth Ann Fennelly	2008
You Rode a Loop	Rosa Alcalá	2020
Self-Portrait in the Time of Disaster	Deborah Paredez	2020
An Epitaph for Little Children	Margaret Widdemer	1915
The Net	Margaret Widdemer	1915
Gold Mountain	Emily Yong	2020
Other Women’s Children	Amaud Jamaul Johnson	2020
Consequences	Rachael Lang	2020
With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath	Linda Gregerson	2019
Probable Poem for the Furious Infant	Jaswinder Bolina	2019
Tomboy	Claudia Masin, Robin Myers	2019
for michael	Jeanetta Calhoun Mish	2019
Playground	Ed Madden	2014
Snake	Ed Madden	2016

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