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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
The British Prison Ship Philip Freneau 1780
The Sound of Their Names Ellen Bass 2020
American Smooth Rita Dove 2006
Tomboy Claudia Masin, Robin Myers 2019
You don't love me, you say, and deflate Gala Mukomolova 2019
Song of Myself, 22 Walt Whitman 1891
I come from the fire city. Eve L. Ewing 2018
Two Set Out on Their Journey Galway Kinnell 2018
Lost Loves Galway Kinnell 2018
Immigrant Can’t Write Poetry Wang Ping 2018
The Wood-pile Robert Frost 2016
I Am Alive in Los Angeles! Mike Sonksen 2015
How to Love January Gill O’Neil 2014
Token Loss Kay Ryan 2014
The Graduate Leaving College George Moses Horton 1845
Dear J. Kazim Ali 2013
A House Divided Kyle Dargan 2013
mulberry fields Lucille Clifton 1991
Half-Hearted Sonnet Kim Addonizio 2012
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing] Bhanu Kapil 2008

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