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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
Sestina: Altaforte Ezra Pound 1956
Spirit Maggie Nelson 2005
On Liberty and Slavery George Moses Horton 1829
Prayer Jorie Graham 2002
Patriotics David Baker 2002
Fletcher McGee Edgar Lee Masters 1921
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
I Was Born Again the First Time I Lost Time Watching a Woman Shira Erlichman 2026
Precious Kira Tucker 2026
A Dozen Cocktails Please Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 2026
The Plot Against the Giant Wallace Stevens 1923
A Southern Road Helene Johnson 1926
Poem in Which My Mother Snapped Denise Duhamel 2025
The End of Girlhood Traci Brimhall 2024
The 2022–2023 Laureate Fellows’ Collaborative Poem Andru Defeye, Ashanti Files, B. K. Fischer, KaNikki Jakarta, Holly Karapetkova, Kealoha , Julia B. Levine , Matt Mason, Ray McNiece , Gailmarie Pahmeier, Rena Priest , Lynne Thompson, Emma Trelles , Gwen Westerman, Crystal Wilkinson 2023
One Year ago—jots what? (296) Emily Dickinson 1945
Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Theft Esther Popel 1925
The Story of Everything Kealoha 2018

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