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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
How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual Pamela Spiro Wagner 2009
Fall Edward Hirsch 1986
I’m a Fool to Love You Cornelius Eady 1997
Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses Alberto Ríos 1990
On a Line from Valery (The Gulf War) Carolyn Kizer 1996
So Cruel Prison Henry Howard 1557
disagreement María Auxiliadora Álvarez 2025
The Spirit of Poetry Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1886
Rest Stop Chandler Peters-Durose 2024
Noon Harindranath Chattopadhyaya 1918
Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals Catherine Pierce 2020
Men Dorothy Parker 1926
American Sonnet (95) Wanda Coleman 2001
Song of Myself, 15 Walt Whitman 1891
Becoming Ghost Cathy Linh Che 2018
A Man’s World Tracy K. Smith 2018
To the Others Lola Ridge 1918
And Now Upon My Head the Crown Phillip B. Williams 2018
If You’re Staying, I’ll Stay Too Meg Day 2017
Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last Lisa Olstein 2016

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