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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
A Situation for Mrs. Biswas Prageeta Sharma 2010
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day Lydia Maria Child 1844
This Day Jimmy Santiago Baca 2007
In Vain Jack Kerouac 2006
Raw Goods Inventory Emily Rosko 2006
Porch Swing in September Ted Kooser 2005
Gooseberry Season Simon Armitage 2005
Love for This Book Pablo Neruda 1966
Found Poem Howard Nemerov 1987
Twilight: After Haying Jane Kenyon 1996
I Might Have Dreamed This Kirsten Dierking 2001
Cynthia Wanders My Neighborhood Thomas Centolella 2026
[I never knew what to name from my life and what to hide] Gabriel Antonio Reed 2026
Immigrant Song at a Food Truck Weijia Pan 2025
Fog Emma Lazarus 1889
Imago Dei Nora Hikari 2024
The 2022–2023 Laureate Fellows’ Collaborative Poem Andru Defeye, Ashanti Files, B. K. Fischer, KaNikki Jakarta, Holly Karapetkova, Kealoha , Julia B. Levine , Matt Mason, Ray McNiece , Gailmarie Pahmeier, Rena Priest , Lynne Thompson, Emma Trelles , Gwen Westerman, Crystal Wilkinson 2023
Let No Charitable Hope Elinor Wylie 2023
Fifty Years James Weldon Johnson 1922

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