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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
Tubes Donald Hall 2006
Ground Swell Mark Jarman 1997
Momentum Catherine Doty 2005
The language of the house Manuel Iris 2025
Learn Your Song Gabriel Ramirez 2025
When Dawn Comes to the City Claude McKay 1922
The Marathon Runner Fenton Johnson 1927
The Sunset and the Purple-Flowered Tree Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2022
Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals Catherine Pierce 2020
Poem Helene Johnson 1922
My Memories Live in my Mother’s Phone Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on Their Butts Luisa A. Igloria 2021
O Claire Wahmanholm 2020
Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild J. P. Grasser 2020
Music Alice Cary 1903
Breathe. As in. (shadow) Rosamond S. King 2019
Common Things Christopher Kondrich 2019
Self-Portrait with Dad’s Baseball Glove Nathan Hoks 2019
Song of Myself, 50 Walt Whitman 1891
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press (Sonnet 140) William Shakespeare 1904

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