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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
The Changing Light Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2000
Puerto Rican Obituary Pedro Pietri 2015
Let There Be Manny Loley 2021
Soulwork Tracy K. Smith 2021
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
Poem in Which I Only Use Vowels Paola Capó-García 2018
The Coliseum Edgar Allan Poe 2018
A Winter’s Tale D. H. Lawrence 2017
Storm H.D. 2017
The Dream of Shoji Kimiko Hahn 2016
From “Citizen,” I [A woman you do not know wants to join you for lunch] Claudia Rankine 2014
The Backyard Mermaid Matthea Harvey 2011
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794) Emily Dickinson 1890
Essay on Man, Epistle II Alexander Pope 1734
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
First Light Morgan Parker 2026
Peonies Danusha Laméris 2026
Day of the Dead Peter Balakian 2025
[There is no Life or Death,] Mina Loy 1914
Singularity Marissa Davis 2020

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