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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 Republic of Poetry Martín Espada 2016
Time-Sensitive Franny Choi 2023
Now What Solmaz Sharif 2019
I Want the Wide American Earth Carlos Bulosan 1950
wishes for sons Lucille Clifton 1991
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet Danez Smith 2016
Revolution is the pod (33) Emily Dickinson 1929
“Uvalde Shooting Highlights Role of Doors in Security Plans” Deborah Paredez 2022
Poem for July 4, 1994 Sonia Sanchez 2018
The 19th Amendment & My Mama Mahogany L. Browne 2020
The End of a Nation Don Mee Choi 2020
Aunt Chloe's Politics Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1891
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last] William Shakespeare 2017
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
From “Will There Be Singing” Juliana Spahr 2020
I Have Stood Up for You Carlos Montezuma 1919
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 2017
After the Election Sarah Messer 2012
Ballade [I die of thirst beside the fountain] François Villon 1965
America James Monroe Whitfield 1853

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