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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
Evening Hawk Robert Penn Warren 1985
Into the Dusk-Charged Air John Ashbery 1997
Heart's Needle W. D. Snodgrass 2006
Anastasia & Sandman Larry Levis 1997
Sometimes with One I Love Walt Whitman 2013
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026
Dirtbag Leigh Lucas 2023
The Harp of Broken Strings John Rollin Ridge 1850
Comment Dorothy Parker 1926
Skin Tight Ishmael Reed 2021
If You Should Go Countee Cullen 1922
I Am Like a Leaf Yone Noguchi 1921
Love is a Flame George Marion McClellan 1916
I Wouldn’t Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance Kaveh Akbar 2018
Dear P. [If you are] Victoria Chang 2017
& even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys’ Danez Smith 2017
Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp Cindy Williams Gutiérrez 2017
Legendary Nicole Sealey 2017
Cattails Nikky Finney 2011
Killing Flies Michael Dickman 2011

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