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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
Spoken For Li-Young Lee 2017
May Perpetual Light Shine Patricia Spears Jones 2017
Galaxy Love Gerald Stern 2017
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face James Weldon Johnson 2017
Heavy Hieu Minh Nguyen 2017
The Map Marie Howe 2016
Incendiary Art Patricia Smith 2016
Pursuit Elizabeth Bradfield 2016
In the Dream Jenny Johnson 2016
A Queerification Regie Cabico 2016
The Ghetto Lola Ridge 2016
The Cry Paisley Rekdal 2016
real poem (personal statement) Rachel Zucker 2014
The Fire Katie Ford 2014
To My Best Friend's Big Sister Ross Gay 2013
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Sonnet 65) William Shakespeare 1609
The House Richard Wilbur 2010
Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree D. A. Powell 2010
Sonnet 101 [Ways apt and new to sing of love I’d find] Petrarch 1374
The Eve of St. Agnes, XXIII, [Out went the taper as she hurried in] John Keats 1820

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