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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 Last Slow Days of Summer Phillip Lopate 2009
Summer Night, Riverside Sara Teasdale 1915
Meeting Again, After Heine Susan Wheeler 1998
Traffic Bill Berkson 2009
Monument Brian Culhane 2009
Meditations in an Emergency Frank O’Hara 1957
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue] Claudia Rankine 2004
Nothing Stays Put Amy Clampitt 1997
To Brooklyn Bridge Hart Crane 1933
Cityscape 1 Pablo Medina 2005
Old Coat Liam Rector 1994
The Tropics of New York Claude McKay 1920
Public Transportation Elaine Sexton 2003
New York Notes Harvey Shapiro 2001
City That Does Not Sleep Federico García Lorca 1973

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