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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
Evening Song Jean Toomer 1923
That’s the Job Edward Hirsch 2018
You Meet Someone and Later You Meet Their Dancing and You Have to Start Again David Welch 2018
Night Waitress Lynda Hull 2017
[Here dead lie we because we did not choose] A. E. Housman 2017
Deep in the Quiet Wood James Weldon Johnson 2015
At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7) John Donne 1633
The Boat Christine de Pisan 2026
One Way or Another Maya C. Popa 2022
Revolutionary Letter #3 Diane di Prima 1971
“The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour” Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love June Jordan 2017
Calling on All Silent Minorities June Jordan 2017
Bringing the Shovel Down Ross Gay 2016
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth Phillis Wheatley 1773
The Kiss Stephen Dunn 2007
Medusa Patricia Smith 1992
The Earthlings Matthew Olzmann 2023
Red Delicious Jerome Ellison Murphy 2022
Berlin: 28.6.2019 Don Mee Choi 2021

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