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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
Memphis Blues Sterling A. Brown 1922
Apostrophe Liza Katz Duncan 2022
Ka ‘Ōlelo Brandy Nālani McDougall 2020
The Blue-Green Stream Wang Wei 1921
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks Countee Cullen 1925
From Barrio Obrero to La Quince Nicole Cecilia Delgado 2020
What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness Shane McCrae 2020
Hundreds of Purple Octopus Moms Are Super Weird, and They’re Doomed January Gill O’Neil 2019
Riding Cynthia Cruz 2019
Autobiography Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958
I Never Figured How to Get Free Donika Kelly 2019
At the Tomb of Napoleon Before the Elections in America—November, 1912 Alan Seeger 2018
A Shropshire Lad, XII A. E. Housman 1922
Taking Out the Trash Kamilah Aisha Moon 2018
Sonku [what i want] Sonia Sanchez 2018
Speak Now, Or Forever. Hold Your Peace. Patricia Smith 2018
Ritual Object Tsitsi Ella Jaji 2018
Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Account Elizabeth Knapp 2018
Forsythe Avenue Haibun Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
Origin Story Jenny Xie 2018

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