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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
Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City Jennifer Grotz 2015
The Living Beauty W. B. Yeats 1919
Tang Bruce Cohen 2013
Sonnet 101 [Ways apt and new to sing of love I’d find] Petrarch 1374
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991
Stealing The Scream Monica Youn 2003
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
Story—Late Summer or Early Fall Yoo Heekyung , Stine An 2024
The End of Girlhood Traci Brimhall 2024
Memory Anne Brontë 1920
Gitanjali 73 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
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
Canadian Born Emily Pauline Johnson 1917

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