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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
Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale Gabriel Cortez 2025
On Avarice Hatim al-Tai 2025
Little Bruja Leonora Simonovis 2025
The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby’s Delivery Will Cost Katie Condon 2025
Elevator Boy Langston Hughes 1926
If I Had a Million Samuel Alfred Beadle 1904
2020 A Year to Forget Nancy Mercado 2024
Fantasy Tennessee Reed 2024
A Black Genius Ishmael Reed 2024
Supply and Demand Clarence Major 2022
I Have Seen Nancy Mercado 2000
A Song for Wall Street Salomón de la Selva 1918
Sioux City Milk War (1932) Laura Mullen 2023
The Fish Christian Gullette 2024
Dream Job Nicole Connolly 2024
Woman with Mop and Bucket Catharine Savage Brosman 2023
Phragmites Kyle Carrero Lopez 2024
The 167th Psalm of Elvis Tony Barnstone 2014
[by way of entry you sit with an object] Chaun Webster 2023
[This noble Jar – will hold] David Drake 1858

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