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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
Proem Octavio Paz 1986
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487) Emily Dickinson 1890
Novel Arthur Rimbaud 2002
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
Black Girls Rising Renée Watson 2017
The End of a Nation Don Mee Choi 2020
The Bowl Jane Hirshfield 2020
Flower-Gathering Robert Frost 2018
Cardiology Rafael Campo 2018
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
Gay Marriage Poem Jenny Johnson 2017
Crows Marilyn Nelson 2016
After the Winter Claude McKay 2015
The Long Deployment Jehanne Dubrow 2013
Starfish Eleanor Lerman 2005
The Distant Moon Rafael Campo 1994
On Desire Dujie Tahat 2022
the poem is a dream telling you its time Marwa Helal 2022
Out of Research Into Reveries Mai Der Vang 2019
An Old Story Tracy K. Smith 2018

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