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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
María de la Luz Knows How to Walk Juan Felipe Herrera 2017
Flame-Heart Claude McKay 2016
Shut Not Your Doors to Me Proud Libraries Walt Whitman 2016
The Banjo Player Fenton Johnson 1922
Moonlight Sara Teasdale 1920
The Outlet (162) Emily Dickinson 1860
The Trouble Ball [excerpt] Martín Espada 2011
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
A Shropshire Lad, II A. E. Housman 1896
Into the Dusk-Charged Air John Ashbery 1997
Personals C. D. Wright 2002
Chansons Innocentes: I E. E. Cummings 1976
Tar C. K. Williams 1994
“Four planets (but no moon) will be visible to the naked eye tonight.” Ashaki M. Jackson 2026
Going Back Roger Mitchell 2025
SoMa Hieu Minh Nguyen 2025
Willow, Stop Weeping Sally Wen Mao 2025
Just the other day, Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
A Beautiful House with a Hot Tub and Pool Jason Schneiderman 2025
DEAR GABRIELLE, Andrea Abi-Karam 2025

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