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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
Hard Night Christian Wiman 2005
Father Outside Nick Flynn 2004
They’ll spend the summer Joshua Beckman 2004
Central Park, Carousel Meena Alexander 2004
After the Grand Perhaps Lucie Brock-Broido 1988
Epitaph Eric Pankey 2003
Mama, Come Back Nellie Wong 1986
Sparrow, the Special Delight of My Girl Gaius Valerius Catullus 2002
Interstate Highway James Applewhite 2002
Blue May Swenson 1994
Red String Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
Sonnet for the Chickens Tom Healy 2025
Artist Statement Tarik Dobbs 2024
In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks Valzhyna Mort 2024
Paul Laurence Dunbar James D. Corrothers 1922
When The Patient Asked For A White Doctor Seema Yasmin
It's Hard to be a Saint Magdalena Zurawski 2019
My Life in Brutalist Architecture #1 John Gallaher 2019
Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #14 Tiana Clark 2018
San Sebastian Spencer Reece 2016

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