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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
The End of a Beginning Marilyn Chin 1987
“I’m Rooting for Everybody Black” Cortney Lamar Charleston 2018
There, There, Grieving Zeina Hashem Beck 2018
Friendship Maxwell Bodenheim
Trans Orbital Lobotomy Sam Sax 2017
breaking away to the u.s. José B. González 2017
A Ballad of Dreamland Algernon Charles Swinburne 2017
Silence D. H. Lawrence 2017
Hope Ali Liebegott 2017
Alfonzo Prepares to Go Over the Top Rita Dove 2017
A Place in the Country Toi Derricotte 2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born Nicole Sealey 2017
stonewall to standing rock Julian Talamantez Brolaski 2016
Swan’s Elegy Jaime Manrique 2016
From “Citizen,” V [Sometimes “I” is supposed to hold what is not there] Claudia Rankine 2016
Aubade to Langston Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2016
Making History Marilyn Nelson 2016
Ghazal Larry Levis 2016
Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz Matthew Olzmann 2016
Still Life with Antidepressants Aaron Smith 2015

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