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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
What Seems Like Joy Kaveh Akbar 2017
Before a Painting James Weldon Johnson 2016
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
Horses at Midnight Without a Moon Jack Gilbert 2012
Suspend, Singer Swan Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
Riverbank Blues Sterling A. Brown 1980
In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever Wanda Coleman 2001
Kaddish, Part I Allen Ginsberg 1984
Going Home the Longest Way Around Pat Schneider 2005
To the Dandelion James Russell Lowell 1843
Self-Portrait as Lilith Elizabeth Acevedo 2023
Folk Song Diane Seuss 2023
Chile’s Land Gabriela Mistral 2003
Hatred Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020
To a Soldier in Hospital Winifred M. Letts 2018
Sonnet V Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
The Apparition John Donne 1633
Ballad Sonia Sanchez 2007

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