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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
Fantasy Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Wedding Dress Michael Waters 2006
Monna Innominata [I wish I could remember] Christina Rossetti 1881
You Tell Us What to Do Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1991
Watermelons Charles Simic 1974
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer Mark Strand 1979
Render, Render Thomas Lux 2004
The Slave’s Complaint George Moses Horton 1829
War Photograph Kate Daniels 2002
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
Voyage to Cythera Charles Baudelaire 1994
Mira at the Market Mirabai 2026
Cynthia Wanders My Neighborhood Thomas Centolella 2026
Touching and Being Touched Jenny George 2026
She says, being forbidden: Leonora Speyer 2026
[And I return to the field] Iain Haley Pollock 2026
Daughter Danusha Laméris 2024
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
War Gary Copeland Lilley 2025
Foreign Body Kimiko Hahn 2017

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