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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
On Houses Kahlil Gibran 1923
Return to Sea Langston Hughes 1927
Outcast Claude McKay 1922
What is Home? Mosab Abu Toha 2022
Ultrasound Kaveh Akbar 2019
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War Joy Harjo 2019
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [Excerpt] Aimé Césaire 2001
Flowers from the Volcano Claribel Alegría 2018
The Immigrant Aline Mello 2022
Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 2022
The Charm of 5:30 David Berman 2013
Daily Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Berlin: 28.6.2019 Don Mee Choi 2021
A Cry from an Indian Wife Emily Pauline Johnson 1900
When the Burning Begins Patricia Smith 2017
Song of My House Being Battered by the Autumn Winds Tu Fu 2025
A Far Country Leslie Pinckney Hill 1921
I Dare You Dorianne Laux 2023
Ekphrasis: Her Expression Yiannis Doukas 2026
The Tree Sparrows Joseph O. Legaspi 2016

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