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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
It would be water Kathy Engel 2021
Shadows Langston Hughes 1923
Do Not Cheer, Men are Dying Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
To One in Paradise Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Hallowe'en John Kendrick Bangs 2017
Coherence in Consequence Claudia Rankine 2017
Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last Lisa Olstein 2016
Of the Surface of Things Wallace Stevens 1919
Canterbury Tales, General Prologue Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Numbness Phillip Lopate 2009
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind Carl Sandburg 1922
Evening Hawk Robert Penn Warren 1985
The Prose Poem Campbell McGrath 2003
Mirabeau Bridge Guillaume Apollinaire 1995
Anastasia & Sandman Larry Levis 1997
Wait Until It Grows Roots Tarfia Faizullah 2025
Dirtbag Leigh Lucas 2023
Moon Over Gaza Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Ode to Sudanese-Americans Safia Elhillo 2021
Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2020

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