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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 Women’s Litany Margaret Widdemer 2018
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With torrin a. greathouse 2021
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
Song of Hope Daisy Zamora 1995
lake-loop Natalie Diaz 2020
Left Nikky Finney 2011
Rambling Afaa Michael Weaver 2007
To The People Who Have Resisted the Urge to Push an Asian Person Into the Path of a Moving Train Bao Phi 2024
Riddle Jericho Brown 2019
women’s voting rights at one hundred (but who’s counting?) Evie Shockley 2020
How To Forgive Susan Nguyen 2022
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019
Long Night Full Moon D. A. Powell 2016
Testimony: 1968 Rita Dove 2020
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
what the dead know by heart Donte Collins 2016
Militants to Certain Other Women Katharine Rolston Fisher 1918
Imagine Kamilah Aisha Moon 2014
American History Michael S. Harper 1970

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