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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 Hook of History Hadara Bar-Nadav 2024
The Earth-Child in the Grass Katherine Mansfield 1923
Grief Dream Carol Muske-Dukes 2021
Disbelief Kamilah Aisha Moon 2021
Ghazal !يا لطيف (Ya Lateef!) Marilyn Hacker 2020
Song to Gabriel Hirsch Sharon Olds 2019
[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered] Diane Seuss 2019
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké Angelina Weld Grimké 1914
Elegy for my husband Toi Derricotte 2012
Kissing My Father Joseph O. Legaspi 2018
I Found Her Out There Thomas Hardy 1914
In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines Cynthia Cruz 2024
Friends Leonora Speyer 1921
The Dream of the Anti-Ekphrasis Fargo Nissim Tbakhi 2022
Afroinsularity Conceição Lima 2021
on holding rose water beyza ozer 2021
Why I don’t write about George Floyd Toi Derricotte 2020
At a Days Inn in Barstow, California Chloe Honum 2019
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. June Jordan 2018
Build, Now, a Monument Matthew Olzmann 2016

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