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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
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 2017
C.R.E.A.M. Danez Smith 2017
from “After Dinner Was Over” Katie Peterson 2017
I Am the Whole Defense Mai Der Vang 2016
Election Year Richard Blanco 2016
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
Song of Myself, 4 Walt Whitman 1891
Interrogation of the Hanged Man Monica Youn 2016
Force Visibility Solmaz Sharif 2016
Some Effects of Global Warming in Lackawanna County Jay Parini 2016
A Fold of Sun Magdalena Zurawski 2016
Praxis Wendy Xu 2016
United Naomi Shihab Nye 2016
The Border: A Double Sonnet Alberto Ríos 2016
Mercy Tyehimba Jess 2016
Laundry Alicia Ostriker 2016
The American middle class… Dawn Lundy Martin 2016
For the City that Nearly Broke Me Reginald Dwayne Betts 2016
Ghazal: America the Beautiful Alicia Ostriker 2016
Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea [excerpt] Dunya Mikhail 2016

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