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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
Outcast Claude McKay 1922
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 2019
Before I Was a Gazan Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
As a Portent David Baker 2014
To My Daughter’s Dead Name Lance Larsen 2025
The Bridge Elisa Gabbert 2025
Fire-Flowers Emily Pauline Johnson 1903
Minstrel Man Langston Hughes 1925
Pictures of Memory Alice Cary 1903
Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from / how did you arrive? Remica Bingham-Risher 2019
Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2019
The Flower George Herbert 2018
Christmas Carol Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
The Black Santa Allison Joseph 2017
My Father Francisco X. Alarcón 2017
Bringing the Shovel Down Ross Gay 2016
Prayer of the Backhanded Jericho Brown 2016
Life Joe Brainard 2012
Lines: 'When the Lamp is Shattered' Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
The Star Jane Taylor 1806

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