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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
On 52nd Street Philip Levine 2003
Yellow Stars and Ice Susan Stewart 1981
The Mutes Denise Levertov 1966
The Wine-Drinkers Tennessee Williams 2002
A Certain Slant of Sunlight Ted Berrigan 1994
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
Air and Angels John Donne 1633
Part Phillis Levin 2001
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane Etheridge Knight 1986
Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi Garrett Hongo 1982
Adolescence II Rita Dove 1993
Passing Carl Phillips 1992
La Lupe Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
The Agricultural Revolution J. P. Grasser 2026
Another Name Amanda Hernández 2026
The Laundresses Lindsay Bernal 2026
Consensus A. L. Nielsen 2026
The Cane Joseph Bruchac 2024
Brass: On Seeing the Boston Pops with My Son at Hanover Theater Oliver de la Paz 2024
Jr Robert Laidler 2025

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