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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
Natural Criminal Francisco X. Alarcón 2017
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim Walt Whitman 2017
María de la Luz Knows How to Walk Juan Felipe Herrera 2017
Flame-Heart Claude McKay 2016
Shut Not Your Doors to Me Proud Libraries Walt Whitman 2016
Imagine Kamilah Aisha Moon 2014
The Banjo Player Fenton Johnson 1922
Moonlight Sara Teasdale 1920
Each year Dora Malech 2010
The Outlet (162) Emily Dickinson 1860
Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy Terrance Hayes 2010
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2007
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars Richard Lovelace 1649
A Shropshire Lad, II A. E. Housman 1896
Into the Dusk-Charged Air John Ashbery 1997
The Soldier David Ferry 1999
Chansons Innocentes: I E. E. Cummings 1976
Tar C. K. Williams 1994
“Four planets (but no moon) will be visible to the naked eye tonight.” Ashaki M. Jackson 2026
Going Back Roger Mitchell 2025

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