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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
To My Best Friend's Big Sister Ross Gay 2013
Ebb Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
A Meadow Lucie Brock-Broido 2011
Day [excerpt] Kenneth Goldsmith 2003
Back Yard Carl Sandburg 1916
Humanimal [Feral children are fatty] Bhanu Kapil 2008
Balance Adam Zagajewski 2008
Black Petal Li-Young Lee 2001
I’m Over the Moon Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Albany Ron Silliman 1983
The Mediterranean Allen Tate 1937
Working Late Louis Simpson 1988
Beach Glass Amy Clampitt 1997
On Liberty and Slavery George Moses Horton 1829
Coming Close Philip Levine 1991
Homecoming Robert Lowell 1975
Tract William Carlos Williams 1962
Ex Nothing Cecilia Vicuña 2026
[i love them still] Fatimah Asghar 2026
Self-Portrait 4 Tove Ditlevsen 2025

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