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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
Audience Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2003
The Slave Mother Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
O Little Root of a Dream Paul Celan 2000
His Excuse for Loving Ben Jonson 1640
Elegy of Hands Gbenga Adesina 2025
My First Bookstore Edward Hirsch 2025
Night’s Edge / La orilla de la noche Octavio Quintanilla 2025
Ocean Robinson Jeffers 1928
All the Time Blues Villanelle Tim Seibles 2022
Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on Their Butts Luisa A. Igloria 2021
Moon Over Gaza Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Gun Control Donika Kelly 2017
Cassette County David Berman 2003
Wasteland: on the California Wildfires Forrest Gander 2020
Becoming a Ghost Tanaya Winder 2020
Little Lead Soldiers  Giannina Braschi 1988
On a Honey Bee, Drinking from a Glass of Wine, and Drowned Therein Philip Freneau 1809
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Seven of the ten things] Terrance Hayes 2019
From “Nox” [Autopsy is a term historians use ...] Anne Carson 2010
Song of Myself, 44 Walt Whitman 1891

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