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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
Finis Waring Cuney 1922
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
I want Jordan Jace 2022
Life's Leaders Elsa Gidlow 1923
The Weavers Were the First to Know Arielle Taitano Lowe 2022
Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants Lehua M. Taitano 2022
You Can’t Maya Abu Al-Hayyat 2022
The Battle of Silicon Valley at Daybreak Alexandria Peary 2022
The First and Last Ameen Rihani 1905
sea of the poem (an annex so we may dream backwards) Roque Raquel Salas Rivera 2022
I Am Bound, I Am Bound, For A Distant Shore Henry David Thoreau 1943
Reinforcements Marianne Moore 1918
Plea Dorothy Parker 1926
The Crystal Gazer Sara Teasdale 1926
Departure Chaman Lall 1919
The New Year Carrie Williams Clifford 1920
The Maze Mary-Kim Arnold 2021
A Distant Song John Gould Fletcher 1913
Promise Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
The Wise Countee Cullen 1925

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