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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
The War Against Birthdays Josh Bell 2025
The Creek in Shirley Canyon Robert Hass 2025
At the Pool Effie Lee Newsome 1927
Don’t You Wanna Patricia Smith 2020
Mahler in New York Joseph Fasano 2013
The Shadow on the Stone Thomas Hardy 1917
The Grey Thread Elsa Gidlow 1923
I HEART My Cat Still Life Alexandria Peary 2022
Ballade at Thirty-five Dorothy Parker 1926
Fog Ruth Madievsky 2021
Proof Tiana Clark 2021
Rainy Day Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1988
How to Start Over Stuart Kestenbaum 2019
The Way We Love Something Small Kimberly Blaeser 2020
Rabbit francine j. harris 2020
Kal Fatimah Asghar 2018
A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp Thomas Moore 2019
OBIT [The Clock] Victoria Chang 2018
What We Cannot Hear Ilya Kaminsky 2019
November Cotton Flower Jean Toomer 1923

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