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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 Jorie Graham 2002
[I finish The Lover and we take a walk.] Nicole Tallman 2025
𓆭 [Tree] Jesse Arlen 2026
Richard’s Not Such a Die-Hard Christian After All Michelle Bitting 2026
[I keep his name] Ulayya bint al-Mahdi 2026
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024
Story—Late Summer or Early Fall Yoo Heekyung , Stine An 2024
The End of Girlhood Traci Brimhall 2024
When Dawn Comes to the City Claude McKay 1922
For the Candlelight Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
dream where every black person is standing by the ocean Danez Smith 2022
Mirage Luis G. Dato 1926
Barnes & Noble, 1999 Jesús I. Valles 2022
Crossing the Line E. Ethelbert Miller 2022
Masochism of the Knees Jackie Wang 2021
Count the Almonds, Paul Celan 2020
If You Should Go Countee Cullen 1922
Hybrida: A Zuihitsu Tina Chang 2019
Song of Myself, 8 Walt Whitman 1891
The Twelve-Forty-Five Joyce Kilmer 2018

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