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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
That you were once unkind befriends me now (Sonnet 120) William Shakespeare 1904
Those lines that I before have writ do lie (Sonnet 115) William Shakespeare 1904
On Buying and Selling Kahlil Gibran 1923
To Germany Charles Hamilton Sorley 1919
Goat on a Pile of Scrap Lumber Michael Collier 2018
Bear Witness Tiana Clark 2018
First Dream C. S. Giscombe 2018
Chicken-Hearted Jennifer Givhan 2018
1987 Paul Guest 2018
revision, impromptu Fred Moten 2018
To Zante Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Emily Dickinson Bianca Stone 2018
Self-Portrait as C-Section Scar Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
Naming the Heartbeats Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
Elegy in Translation Meg Day 2018
Words John Keene 2018
The Silver Thread Afaa Michael Weaver 2017
Staring into the Sun Jennifer Grotz 2017
Watch Us Elocute Marcus Wicker 2017
it won’t be a bullet Danez Smith 2017

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