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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.

Title Author Year
Age and Death Emma Lazarus 1888
A Newborn Girl at Passover Nan Cohen 1998
Hum Ann Lauterbach 2005
Untitled [I talk to my inner lover] Kabir 2004
Iva's Pantoum Marilyn Hacker 1969
Caged Bird Matthew J. Spireng 2002
Song of Myself John Canaday 2002
The Woodspurge Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1856
One A.M. [excerpt] David Young 1994
From “Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus” Denise Levertov 2000
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet Tony Hoagland 1998
Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565 Richard Howard 1994
Bottom Feeders Arielle Hebert 2026
My mother looks Manuel Iris 2025
Ritual Is Journey Chris Abani 2022
Poetry in Small Language Damir Šodan 2025
Saltwater Demands a Psalm Kweku Abimbola 2023
my dream about the second coming Lucille Clifton 1987
Body Language Pramila Venkateswaran 2025
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025

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