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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
Longings Nellie Rathbone Bright 1927
Hoops with Nets Mark Halliday 2025
On the Three Forms of Water Campbell McGrath 2021
Ode to Goby Juliana Spahr 2023
Carbon Dating Billy Collins 2022
Abomunist Manifesto Bob Kaufman 2019
Much Later Gertrude Stein 1926
Indian Summer Dorothy Parker 1926
When Sue Wears Red Langston Hughes 1923
I Never Wanted to Die Dorianne Laux 2021
My Father. A Tree. Tina Chang 2020
How Music Stays in the Body Lee Herrick 2018
Militants to Certain Other Women Katharine Rolston Fisher 1918
Let Me Not Lose My Dream Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Circe H.D. 1921
Lines Breaking José B. González 2017
American Syntax Ching-In Chen 2016
When my love swears that she is made of truth (Sonnet 138) William Shakespeare 2016
Mist Henry David Thoreau 2015
Unpacking a Globe Arthur Sze 2015

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