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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
Africa Lewis Grandison Alexander 1926
Transformation Lewis Grandison Alexander 1926
What Do I Care for Morning Helene Johnson 1926
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
A Lesson from my Father about Electricity Monica Rico 2023
Mexican Heaven José Olivarez 2023
Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall) José Olivarez 2023
Dirk McDermott Patrick Donnelly 2023
Summer, You’re a Boneyard Gustavo Hernandez 2023
The Honest Tongue Laura Da’ 2023
“South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills” Aaron Coleman 2023
I Grant You Ample Leave George Eliot 1959
Enchantment Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 1924
Ancestry Tommy Archuleta 2023
Look Maxine Scates 2023
Hey, Jose Hernandez Diaz 2023
Indeterminacy Charif Shanahan 2023
No Room to Form John S. Blake 2023
Slow through the Dark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Joseph Fasano 2023

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