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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
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell 2000
The Specific Ocean Jenny Browne 2026
After My First Breakup, My Father Writes His First Email Emily Jungmin Yoon 2026
The Means to Attain Happy Life Martial 2026
Latinx Is Emanuel Xavier 2023
Gitanjali 96 Rabindranath Tagore
Yet Do I Marvel Countee Cullen 1927
The Birds’ Lullaby Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Keep A-Pluggin' Away Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
[The faint shadow of the morning moon?] Yone Noguchi 1920
Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door Elisabet Velasquez 2021
Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2020
Southern Mansion Arna Bontemps 1922
Now Close the Windows Robert Frost 1915
Deleting Names (A Decaying Sestina) Lawrence Schimel 2018
To One in Paradise Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Dear P. [If you are] Victoria Chang 2017
Love Rupert Brooke 2017
Endymion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2016

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