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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
In Time of War Carolyn Forché 2020
Why I Write Poetry Leah Kindler 2022
The Song of the Smoke W. E. B. Du Bois 1914
Acedia Sestina Rohan Chhetri 2022
Taking Your Olympic Measure Alberto Ríos 2021
Rainy Day Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1988
One Year Later Lucille Clifton 1996
A Song of Hope Charles Bertram Johnson 1921
Hiatus Ely Shipley 2020
Little Lead Soldiers  Giannina Braschi 1988
Hope. Alice Dunbar-Nelson 2020
Want Could Kill Me Xan Forest Phillips 2019
Glory Gbenga Adesina 2020
Blind Fish Yusef Komunyakaa 2020
Tomato Pies, 25 Cents Grace Cavalieri 2019
The Portent Herman Melville 1859
brief lesson on marriage G. C. Waldrep 2019
That’s My Heart Right There Willie Perdomo 2019
Song of the Open Road, 11 Walt Whitman 1891
Song of Myself, 9 Walt Whitman 1891

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