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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
I, Being born a Woman and Distressed (Sonnet XLI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
poem in praise of menstruation Lucille Clifton 1991
poem to my uterus Lucille Clifton 1991
The Ballad of Cathay Williams William Cathay Shane McCrae 2012
Amy Check On My Square Inch of Land Farrah Field 2012
At the Carnival Anne Spencer 1922
Stones Michael Blumenthal 1980
Sci-Fi Tracy K. Smith 2011
You Foolish Men Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
I Have Never Been Anything Like Pink Kazuko Shiraishi 1982
Children in a Field Angela Shaw 2009
Stereo Anne Waldman 2008
Blur Andrew Hudgins 2003
Black Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Ontario Mark Levine 2006
Secrets in the Sand [And the night was a precipice] Marjorie Agosín 2006
wishes for sons Lucille Clifton 1991
When a Woman Loves a Man David Lehman 1996
“What Do Women Want?” Kim Addonizio 2000

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