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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
So Many Constellations Paul Celan 2020
My Mother, My Mother Lue Hughes 2020
Farewell Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1895
The Task of Naming Me Sharon Olds 2019
Self-Portrait with Dad’s Baseball Glove Nathan Hoks 2019
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war (Sonnet 46) William Shakespeare 1904
Everyone Sang Siegfried Sassoon 1920
A Man’s World Tracy K. Smith 2018
Roses Only Marianne Moore 1921
And Now Upon My Head the Crown Phillip B. Williams 2018
Poem in Which the Writer Sees Himself in an Old Textbook, 1943 Sam Sax 2017
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades June Jordan 2017
What I Did Wrong Marie Howe 2017
Book of Statues Richie Hofmann 2016
American Syntax Ching-In Chen 2016
The Carolina Wren Laura Donnelly 2015
Etta’s Elegy Maureen Seaton 2014
Renouncement Alice Meynell 1895
Heirloom Nikky Finney 2011
Earth Took of Earth Anonymous 1000

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