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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
Instead of Depression Andrea Gibson 2021
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian Ross Gay 2016
Greensickness Laurel Chen 2022
To Prisoners Gwendolyn Brooks 2018
Friends with No Benefits Megan Fernandes 2023
Things We Carry on the Sea Wang Ping 2018
Gitanjali 36 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017
I look at the world Langston Hughes 2009
I dwell in Possibility (30) Emily Dickinson 1929
The Dream Keeper Langston Hughes 1926
My earth which is mine will always make more of itself Kamelya Omayma Youssef 2026
Give Me Your Hand Gabriela Mistral 2003
Sun Song Langston Hughes 1927
Our Book of Delights Arielle Hebert 2026
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella Ariana Brown 2022
little prayer Danez Smith 2017
Untitled [Do you still remember: falling stars] Rainer Maria Rilke 2016
Prayer Galway Kinnell 2018
For the Graduation [Bolinas, 1973] Robert Creeley 2016

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