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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 world is a beautiful place” Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2017
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
A Brief History of Hostility Jamaal May 2017
Vaccinated Jericho Brown 2021
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth] William Shakespeare 2016
Oranges H. R. Webster 2025
A Loud Death Richard Jackson 2025
Death of a Hero (The Mosquito) Viktor Neborak 2025
Accounting Sasha Burshteyn 2025
String Theory Richard Jackson 2022
About this Poem Richard Jackson 1992
Listening to Coltrane’s Alabama as the Perseids Fade Out Richard Jackson 2022
[Each year she sits costumed in violent white] Niki Herd 2024
Derhachi Olena Jennings 2025
Everything Exactly as It Seems Abigail Chabitnoy 2025
Descendancy Denise Low 2024
Acknowledgement of Lenape Lands Denise Low 2024
Blossom Dorianne Laux 2024
Fourth of July Rob Arnold 2025
The Dance of the Lambs and the Birds Ameen Animashaun 2025

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