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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
Lament Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
For a Birthday Sophie Jewett 1910
Family Secret Nancy Kuhl 2023
From “The World After Rain” Canisia Lubrin 2023
The Hermit Claude McKay 1912
A Drowsy Day Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
This Island on Which I Love You Brandy Nālani McDougall 2020
American Sonnet (95) Wanda Coleman 2001
Insomniami Ariel Francisco 2021
Ode on an Abandoned House Hayan Charara 2021
Sophia the Robot Contemplates Beauty Safiya Sinclair 2020
Haiku [i am moving in] Sonia Sanchez 2018
A Boy Can Wear a Dress John Bosworth 2018
Ongoing Jenny Xie 2018
Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth Tarfia Faizullah 2018
She Was Fed Turtle Soup Lois Red Elk 2017
Tuesday 9/11/01 Lucille Clifton 2017
Someone Joseph O. Legaspi 2016
The Peddler of Flowers Amy Lowell 2016
Exclusively on Venus Trace Peterson 2016

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