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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
Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley 1818
If— Rudyard Kipling 1910
Lift Every Voice and Sing James Weldon Johnson 1917
With a Copy of Shelley Harriet Monroe 1900
Herald Josephine Miles 1983
They Won’t Find Us in Books Willie Perdomo 2019
Intimacy Suplex Quinn Carver Johnson 2023
Cover Letter Alan Felsenthal 2024
Entre Nous Sophie Jewett 1910
Letter to Lucy (1803–1808) Pamela Alexander 1991
Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful. Perry Janes 2023
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, XXVII Al-Ma‘arri 1920
Salutamus Sterling A. Brown 1927
The Marathon Runner Fenton Johnson 1927
The Laureate Fellows’ Collaborative Poem Brian Sonia-Wallace, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, Semaj Brown, Luisa A. Igloria, Georgina Marie Guardado, Lloyd Schwartz, Aileen Cassinetto, Marcus Amaker, Magdalena Gómez, Bobby LeFebre, Melissa Kwasny, Dasha Kelly Hamilton, Chasity Gunn 2022
At The Corner of New Orleans and Frontier - At Disneyland Matt Mason 2022
My Hero Benjamin Brawley 1922
Address What Matters Gailmarie Pahmeier 2017
When Nothing Else Will Do Lynne Thompson 2021
Life's Leaders Elsa Gidlow 1923

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