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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
i know the grandmother one had hands Jaki Shelton Green 2019
Mother to Son Langston Hughes 1922
If— Rudyard Kipling 1910
Twilight Dan Bellm 2017
Detail from “What No One Could Have Told Them” C. D. Wright 2025
What No One Could Have Told Them C. D. Wright 2025
The Globe Michael Collier 2025
Early On I Evaded— Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Toys in a Field Daniel Moysaenko 2025
Arts & Craft Farid Matuk 2025
To Plant Again Simon J. Ortiz 2002
I Am a Black Woman Mari Evans 2007
Aisha Mikeas Sánchez 2024
The Bearing Edge Ralph James Savarese 2023
You Must Lift Your Son’s Languid Body Oliver de la Paz 2023
Love Letter to a Burning World Carla Rachel Sameth 2021
Lullaby John James 2023
From “Giornata” Gregory Pardlo 2022
His Eye on The Sparrow Airea D. Matthews 2022
Milk Julia B. Levine 2022

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