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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
I, Being born a Woman and Distressed (Sonnet XLI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
poem in praise of menstruation Lucille Clifton 1991
Sundown Jorie Graham 2011
Good Hair Sherman Alexie 2011
A Book of Music Jack Spicer 1958
My Wife Robert Louis Stevenson 1896
White Apples Donald Hall 2006
The Bistro Styx Rita Dove 1995
[Impossible to explain] Gabriel Antonio Reed 2026
The Emperor Pats His Lips with a Napkin Sanam Sheriff 2026
Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog Kaveh Akbar 2025
Bird Tomás Q. Morín 2025
Loom Lee Trumpfheller 2024
The Weavers Were the First to Know Arielle Taitano Lowe 2022
Aspen Tree Paul Celan 2020
A Suggested Campaign Song Alice Duer Miller 1915
The Sicilian’s Tale; The Bell of Atri Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1863
In-between the sun and moon Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
Owed to the Durag Joshua Bennett 2018
The Women’s Litany Margaret Widdemer 2018

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