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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
Prayer of the Backhanded Jericho Brown 2016
To America James Weldon Johnson 1917
syntax Maureen N. McLane 2008
Medusa Patricia Smith 1992
Fireworks Edith Sitwell 1918
The Dramatists Dorothy Parker 1926
On Freedom Kahlil Gibran 1923
Soldier: Twentieth Century Isaac Rosenberg 1922
Move Alicia Ostriker 2018
The Conqueror Worm Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World Martín Espada 2017
Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love June Jordan 2017
With Music Helen Hay Whitney 1905
Wonder and Joy Robinson Jeffers 1916
’N’em Jericho Brown 2014
Lunar Paraphrase Wallace Stevens 1931
It was not Death, for I stood up (510) Emily Dickinson 1890
A Green Crab’s Shell Mark Doty 1995
One Way or Another Maya C. Popa 2022
Ode on Melancholy John Keats 1820

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