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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
The 19th Amendment & My Mama Mahogany L. Browne 2020
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
A Distant Song John Gould Fletcher 1913
15¢ Futures Marilyn Nelson 2015
Song of Hope Daisy Zamora 1995
I wanted to be surprised. Jane Hirshfield 2020
Planet Dread Safiya Sinclair 2023
Prayer at Sunrise James Weldon Johnson 2015
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019
Circe H.D. 1921
A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem Rachel Dillon 2025
The Index Rena Priest 2020
Ode to Goby Juliana Spahr 2023
To Mars from Arizona Alberto Ríos 2023
Wetland francine j. harris 2023
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
The Maze Mary-Kim Arnold 2021
Dark Eye in September Paul Celan 2020
if found, then measured Marcelo Hernandez Castillo 2019
Yesterday and To-morrow Paul Laurence Dunbar 1905

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