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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
Immigrant Blues Li-Young Lee 2008
Migration (audio only) Major Jackson 2008
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Passage to India Walt Whitman 1891
Day of the Refugios Alberto Ríos 1994
The Sound of One Immigrant Clapping Adrian Castro 2005
Tenantry George Scarbrough 1989
Leaving Seoul: 1953 Walter K. Lew 2002
How I Got That Name Marilyn Chin 1994
Mannahatta Walt Whitman 1891
And the City Stood in its Brightness (audio only) Czesław Miłosz 1963
Lot’s Wife Anna Akhmatova 1973
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
The Great Migration Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999

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