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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
From “Fairies” Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2013
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah Patricia Smith 2012
Curtains Ruth Stone 1987
Dear Tiara Sean Thomas Dougherty 2011
Summer Song William Carlos Williams 1917
Poet's Work Lorine Niedecker 2002
Tubes Donald Hall 2006
Suicide of a Moderate Dictator Elizabeth Bishop 2006
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun Heather McHugh 1999
Dementia Is a New Way to Be Buddhist Kelli Russell Agodon 2025
From “The Lady of the Lake” (Canto I) Sir Walter Scott 1810
When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation Kyle Tran Myhre 2024
Little Things Marion Strobel 1921
Latinx Is Emanuel Xavier 2023
The Night is Darkening Round Me Emily Brontë 1941
Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode Airea D. Matthews 2019
Poem Helene Johnson 1922
Sick4Sick torrin a. greathouse 2022
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022
Letter to my sister Trapeta B. Mayson 2008

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