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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
Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City Jennifer Grotz 2015
On the Beach at Night Alone Walt Whitman 1891
Left Nikky Finney 2011
Blue Dementia Yusef Komunyakaa 2011
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind Carl Sandburg 1922
American History Michael S. Harper 1970
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026
A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem Rachel Dillon 2025
Gitanjali 103 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
A House in Taos Langston Hughes 1927
Observation Dorothy Parker 1926
Sometimes There Is A Day Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Beauty That is Never Old James Weldon Johnson 1921
[A cloud of flowers!] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Evening Song Willa Cather 1903
She Was Fed Turtle Soup Lois Red Elk 2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades June Jordan 2017
Medusa Louise Bogan 1921
Brad Pitt Aaron Smith 2005

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