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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
the art of losing Rabha Ashry 2026
my dream about the second coming Lucille Clifton 1987
Ways to Measure Trees MaKshya Tolbert 2025
Sonnet for the Chickens Tom Healy 2025
Daria Ukiyo-e Aristilde Kirby 2024
The Swimmer Witter Bynner 1920
Artist Statement Tarik Dobbs 2024
A Welcome Joanna Klink 2024
[…] “Still they ask in podcast” Fady Joudah 2024
After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks Avni Vyas 2024
Abecedarian on the Good Father Keith Leonard 2024
Projector H.D. 1927
In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks Valzhyna Mort 2024
Dead Boy Mutsuo Takahashi 2024
Distant Footsteps César Vallejo 1918
Senlin: A Biography (Part I, Section II) Conrad Aiken 1918
Instructions Before Stuttering JJJJJerome Ellis 2023
I Give You My Heart Ricardo Alberto Maldonado 2017
[When you told us our glances, soft, timid, and mild,] Wallada bint al-Mustakfi 1796
For the Candlelight Angelina Weld Grimké 1927

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