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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 Specious Present Catherine Barnett 2023
For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina Michael Leong 2023
A Midnight Woman to the Bobby Claude McKay 1912
The Haunted House Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1834
True Kindness Is a Pure Divine Affinity Henry David Thoreau 1943
Ballade at Thirty-five Dorothy Parker 1926
Poem—To the Black Beloved Langston Hughes 1926
4. bell hooks 2012
A Farewell Langston Hughes 1926
[Oye! This is an apartment building ode.] Dimitri Reyes 2022
June Sunset Sarojini Naidu 1917
Ways to Disappear Camille Rankine 2021
Cassette County David Berman 2003
The Winter Bird Jones Very 1883
Everything is Different Paul Celan 2020
Little Lead Soldiers  Giannina Braschi 1988
My Descendants W. B. Yeats 1970
The Rainbow Effie Waller Smith 1909
Father replays the funeral in Dream #28 Margo Tamez 2019
Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything Hanif Abdurraqib 2019

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