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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
Bomb Crater Sky Lam Thi My Da 2005
Father Outside Nick Flynn 2004
Gospel Philip Levine 2001
An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries Jupiter Hammon 1760
Before the Snake Nathaniel Tarn 2002
Sparrow, the Special Delight of My Girl Gaius Valerius Catullus 2002
Minerva Jones Edgar Lee Masters 1916
Of Politics, & Art Norman Dubie 2000
Mantle Kevin Young 2025
Holiday cheer or holiday void— Haleh Liza Gafori 2024
Even in Gretna, Hearing the Cashier Talk, I Long for Gretna Alison Pelegrin 2022
Unspooled Carla Rachel Sameth 2021
The Change Has Come Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
I Was a Good Wife Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2021
This Sunday in Ordinary Time Peter Twal 2018
A Rooster in Tepoztlán Paul Muldoon 2018
Much Tattooed Sailor Aboard USS New Jersey Jehanne Dubrow 2014
Black Glass Soliloquy Ben Mirov 2012
Essay on Adam Robert Bringhurst 2012
Sita Jason Schneiderman 2012

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