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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
Autumn Evening David Lehman 2010
Red Lilies Barbara Guest 2008
Wilderness Carl Sandburg 1918
The Heron Linda Hogan 2008
Sonnet 1 Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Practice Ellen Bryant Voigt 2002
In Praise of Shame Lord Alfred Douglas 1894
Sun Michael Palmer 1988
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
Five Murders Randall Mann 2026
[A long time ago] Tao Yuanming 1918
Audience Derrick Austin 2026
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
Bird Tomás Q. Morín 2025
After Morlot Avenue Carlie Hoffman 2024
job prescription Evie Shockley 2024
[O But My Delicate Lover] Sappho 1907
The morning after I die Ana Blandiana 2022
LXXXVIII (The Sonnets) Ted Berrigan 2005
dream where every black person is standing by the ocean Danez Smith 2022

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