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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
Poem Langston Hughes 1926
My Soul Positions Itself in the Nation Afaa Michael Weaver 2026
Audience Derrick Austin 2026
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024
Nomenclatures of Invisibility Mahtem Shiferraw 2017
Arabic Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
Snow Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
𓆭 [Tree] Jesse Arlen 2026
Triptych in Black and Blue Tatiana Johnson-Boria 2023
[to keep knowing] Aracelis Girmay 2023
To the Pine Tree Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 2020
Today Matthew Zapruder 2019
Spanglish As Experienced by a Native Speaker John Olivares Espinoza 2017
Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before Ina Cariño 2023
Nothing Krysten Hill 2020
It Was Summer Now and the Colored People Came Out Into the Sunshine Morgan Parker 2018
My Father’s Accent Kaveh Akbar 2021
Nimbawaadaan Akiing / I Dream a World Margaret Noodin 2021
Pledge Allegiance Natalie Scenters-Zapico 2020
Tongue Raffi Joe Wartanian 2026

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