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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
Recollections of My Christmas Tree Mary Ruefle 2016
The Laughing Child W. S. Merwin 2016
We All Return to the Place Where We Were Born Oscar Gonzales 2016
The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood Derrick Austin 2016
Again Ross Gay 2016
Bringing the Shovel Down Ross Gay 2016
Elijah vs. Santa Richard Michelson 2016
Victory Sherman Alexie 2016
Polaroid: Links Stacey Lynn Brown 2016
The Rookie January Gill O’Neil 2016
Whether by Drowning or by Stars Mark Bibbins 2016
Fiddleheads Maureen Seaton 2016
The Young Poets of Winnipeg Naomi Shihab Nye 2016
To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri Naomi Shihab Nye 2016
Autumn Passage Elizabeth Alexander 2016
Pomegranate Means Grenade Jamaal May 2016
There was a child went forth every day Walt Whitman 1900
Nature Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2019
No Hands Carol Muske-Dukes 2016
Orphanage Carol Muske-Dukes 2016

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