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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
[A long time ago] Tao Yuanming 1918
Cynthia Wanders My Neighborhood Thomas Centolella 2026
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
Do Not Run Farnaz Fatemi 2024
One Year ago—jots what? (296) Emily Dickinson 1945
Mother Dear Claude McKay 1912
The Weather-Cock Points South Amy Lowell 1921
Nativity Gladys May Casely Hayford 1927
Remembering Our First Parties Erin Rose Coffin 2023
A Farewell Langston Hughes 1926
One Summer Ann-Margaret Lim 2021
Song for a Banjo Dance Langston Hughes 1926
After Many Springs Langston Hughes 1926
Sock Hop Anis Mojgani 2011
Kiss Ellen Bass 2020
Love Game Angelo Geter 2018
Self James Oppenheim 1916
I Tried to Write a Poem Called “Imposter Syndrome” and Failed Emilia Phillips 2020
Alice Paul Katharine Rolston Fisher 2019
Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson Robin Coste Lewis 2017

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