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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
Cross Langston Hughes 1922
Disclosure Camisha L. Jones 2020
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's funeral and Completed on the first Day of the New Year Dean Rader 2019
The Cabbage Butterfly Minnie Bruce Pratt 2018
In Each Look Our Years Edwin Torres 2017
Morning Song Sara Teasdale 1920
Make Me Human or Give Me Death May Yang 2017
Calling on All Silent Minorities June Jordan 2017
The World We Want Is Us Alice Walker 2016
the bullet was a girl Danez Smith 2015
The Dream Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
The Living Beauty W. B. Yeats 1919
The Banjo Player Fenton Johnson 1922
The Yellow Bittern (An Bunnan Bui) Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna 1913
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Walt Whitman 1891
The Question Answered William Blake 1905
Falling James Dickey 1992
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991
Pillow Li-Young Lee 2001
Southern Road Sterling A. Brown 1980

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