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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 Smooth Rita Dove 2006
Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
My Prayer Henry David Thoreau 1895
Autobiography Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958
Song of Myself, 47 Walt Whitman 1891
Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144) William Shakespeare 1904
Lo! as a careful housewife run to catch (Sonnet 143) William Shakespeare 1904
The Dew and the Bird Alexander Posey 2018
Her Makeup Face Garrett Hongo 2018
Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally Elizabeth Alexander 2018
Leaving Tulsa Jennifer Elise Foerster 2017
Sketch Carl Sandburg 1916
The Lawyers Know Too Much Carl Sandburg 2017
Talent Layli Long Soldier 2017
The Everglades Campbell McGrath 2016
To a Magazine Mary Ruefle 2016
Exceeding Beringia Joan Naviyuk Kane 2016
Evening H.D. 1916
Sea Poppies H.D. 1916
real poem (personal statement) Rachel Zucker 2014

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