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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
The Mind in State Fady Joudah 2016
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles Sally Wen Mao 2015
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 Charles Harper Webb 2010
The Secret Denise Levertov 1966
The Storm Theodore Roethke 1975
Folded Luis Muñoz 2026
Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 2022
Velvet Shoes Elinor Wylie 2021
When the Burning Begins Patricia Smith 2017
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 2017
Blessings Jay Parini 2016
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley Jupiter Hammon 1787
Late Autumn Wasp James Hoch 2007
Some Things Don't Make Any Sense at All Judith Viorst 1981
Riverbank Blues Sterling A. Brown 1980
A Little Tooth Thomas Lux 1990
[It was summer when I found you] Sappho 1907
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
Folk Song Diane Seuss 2023
Suicide’s Note Langston Hughes 1926

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