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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
Be Near Me Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
A Hand Jane Hirshfield 2001
Into the Dusk-Charged Air John Ashbery 1997
Memories of West Street and Lepke Robert Lowell 1976
The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one June Jordan 1989
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With torrin a. greathouse 2021
from “Parallax” Nancy Cunard 1925
Joy Langston Hughes 1926
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
Boys Will Be Boys Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1911
A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti 2018
The Ghost’s Petition Christina Rossetti 2018
A Memory Saeed Jones 2018
Ode to My Hearing Aids Camisha L. Jones 2018
A Bell, Still Unrung Safiya Sinclair 2016
Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean Patricia Smith 2016
Bleeding May Swenson 2016
Tender Buttons [A Long Dress] Gertrude Stein 1914
poem in praise of menstruation Lucille Clifton 1991
Hamatreya Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847

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