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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
Medusa Patricia Smith 1992
[I seek and desire] Sappho 1907
anti poetica Danez Smith 2023
Our Land Langston Hughes 1925
Saturday’s Child Countee Cullen 1925
Paper Cuts Natalie Scenters-Zapico 2019
Amores (VIII) E. E. Cummings 1923
Waiting—Afield at Dusk Robert Frost 2018
The Flower George Herbert 2018
Passive Voice Laura Da’ 2017
Summoning the Body that Is Mine When I Shut My Eyes Jenny Johnson 2017
Haunted Seas Cale Young Rice 1921
The Sphinx Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841
Affirmation Donald Hall 2002
Revolution is the pod (33) Emily Dickinson 1929
Mexican Heaven José Olivarez 2023
The Choice Dorothy Parker 1926
Dysphoria Oliver Baez Bendorf 2020
Declaration Tracy K. Smith 2018
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 2017

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