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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
Gitanjali 10 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Tenebris Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
I Have a Friend Anne Spencer 1927
The Atom No. 18 Sarah Mangold 2022
He Had His Dream Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
This Island on Which I Love You Brandy Nālani McDougall 2020
Ode to Sudanese-Americans Safia Elhillo 2021
A Suggested Campaign Song Alice Duer Miller 1915
The Sound of Their Names Ellen Bass 2020
Love is a Flame George Marion McClellan 1916
What Will You Do? Rainer Maria Rilke 1922
A Boy Can Wear a Dress John Bosworth 2018
The Sleeper Edgar Allan Poe 2018
New York at Night Amy Lowell 2018
In Praise of Okra January Gill O’Neil 2009
The Mystic Blue D. H. Lawrence 2017
My Friends Ali Power 2017
Losing the 440-Yard Dash Afaa Michael Weaver 2016
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing Toi Derricotte 2012
Cayucos Eduardo C. Corral 2016

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