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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
Three Mathew Brady Photographs Eric Pankey 2014
Catawba Cotton Mill, 1908 David Wojahn 2014
The Buttonhook Mary Jo Salter 2014
Non-lieux Erika Meitner 2014
From “Citizen,” VI [My brothers are notorious] Claudia Rankine 2014
From “Citizen,” I [A woman you do not know wants to join you for lunch] Claudia Rankine 2014
To America James Weldon Johnson 1917
valentine for Sally Hemings Sojourner Ahebee 2014
Idaho Matthew Zapruder 2014
Star in the Throat, Fire in the Cupboard Catie Rosemurgy 2014
Black Laws Roger Reeves 2013
Like Any Good American Brynn Saito 2013
A House Divided Kyle Dargan 2013
América Richard Blanco 1998
The Blank of America Terese Svoboda 2012
1492 Emma Lazarus 1888
The House-top Herman Melville 1866
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln 1824
Handshake Histories Jeff Hoffman 2011
America [Try saying wren] Joseph Lease 2011

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