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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
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017
Dear Exile, Mai Der Vang 2017
Astronomers Locate a New Planet Matthew Olzmann 2016
The Wings of Daylight W. S. Merwin 2016
Long Night Full Moon D. A. Powell 2016
Sorcery Sandra Simonds 2016
Of the Surface of Things Wallace Stevens 1919
Gunga Din Rudyard Kipling 1892
Brad Pitt Aaron Smith 2005
Eighth Air Force Randall Jarrell 1969
A Farewell to America Phillis Wheatley 1773
I begin the day thinking Taylor Byas 2025
From “Vita Nuova” [To every captive soul and gentle heart] Dante Alighieri 2024
I Asked Why Have You Denied Yourself Love Sierra DeMulder 2023
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With torrin a. greathouse 2021
Nocturne Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Blues Fantasy Langston Hughes 1926
An Ante-Bellum Sermon Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Sometimes There Is A Day Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
The Spanish Needle Claude McKay 1922

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