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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
Little Lead Soldiers  Giannina Braschi 1988
Love in the City José Martí 2002
The Check In Nandi Comer 2020
In the Middle of the Burning Canisia Lubrin 2020
One Fire, Quenched with Another Jeremy Michael Clark 2020
From “Perspective is Supposed to Yield Clarity” Dawn Lundy Martin 2020
Hope. Alice Dunbar-Nelson 2020
What is Water? Danielle Legros Georges 2020
Untethered Allison Joseph 2020
From “A Coda to History” Kwame Dawes, John Kinsella 2020
they need some of us to die Donte Collins 2020
Monday Morning Al Mills, Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha 2020
Mexican American Sublime Rodney Gomez 2020
Rainy Twilight Evelyn Scott 1920
The Tay Bridge Disaster William McGonagall 1890
The Ruins of Bam Garous Abdolmalekian 2020
From A Book of Hours Maureen N. McLane 2020
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window W. B. Yeats 1924
The Vale of Malevolent Volume Justin Phillip Reed 2020
Testimony: 1968 Rita Dove 2020

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