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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
Observation Dorothy Parker 1926
Ode to Sudanese-Americans Safia Elhillo 2021
Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2020
Yesterday and To-morrow Paul Laurence Dunbar 1905
An Apology Julia Ward Howe 1854
The Haunted Oak Paul Laurence Dunbar
Beat! Beat! Drums! Walt Whitman
The Rules Leila Chatti 2019
Fides, Spes Willa Cather 1903
Song of Myself, 8 Walt Whitman 1891
Song of Myself, 22 Walt Whitman 1891
Song of Myself, 16 Walt Whitman 1891
Break of Day in the Trenches Isaac Rosenberg 2018
The Things That Count Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1919
Bonfire Opera Danusha Laméris 2016
Origin Story Jenny Xie 2018
Oriflamme Jessie Redmon Fauset 1920
FaceTime Clint Smith 2017
Sorrow Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem Juan Felipe Herrera 2016

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