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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
Why I Needed To Richard Blanco 2023
Gitanjali 87 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Refraction #2 Tim Z. Hernandez 2023
Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising Paul Tran 2023
Transformation Lewis Grandison Alexander 1926
The Deserter Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1927
My House Claude McKay 1927
Instructions for the End Jen Benka 2011
Love Poem in the Black Field Ariana Benson 2023
This Beautiful Planet Dorothea Lasky 2023
For the Candlelight Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
The Need Is So Great Jim Moore 2022
apocalyptic lyric Cintia Santana 2022
A Tale Louise Bogan 1923
Country of Water Mahogany L. Browne 2022
ADVICE (for E) Marilyn Chin 2022
Man Hesitates but Life Urges D’Arcy McNickle 1926
Iris of Life Zitkála-Šá 1898
Sonnet [Upon these deeps in days remotely old] Luis G. Dato 1926
Argonauts Luis G. Dato 1926

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