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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
Like a Strong Tree Claude McKay 1925
Ode to Sudanese-Americans Safia Elhillo 2021
My Mother, My Mother Lue Hughes 2020
From “Grandmother’s Garden” Meena Alexander 2020
Song for Equal Suffrage Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1911
Trayvon, Redux Rita Dove 2013
Why I Love Thee? Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought (Sonnet 44) William Shakespeare 1904
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8) William Shakespeare 1904
An Hymn to the Evening Phillis Wheatley 1909
Everyone Sang Siegfried Sassoon 1920
Sestina Ciara Shuttleworth 2018
Barberism Terrance Hayes 2017
Little Box Marilyn Nelson 2016
Sorcery Sandra Simonds 2016
When There Were Ghosts Alberto Ríos 2014
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?] William Shakespeare 1600
The Dead Mina Loy 1920
All the Whiskey in Heaven Charles Bernstein 2010
The Harvest Moon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1878

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