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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
[Ask the lightning] Hafsa bint al-Hajj Arrakuniyya 1991
Dark Sunday Grant Chemidlin 2026
Bullets Still Don’t Have Names on Them Jennifer Bartell Boykin 2024
I Face East (Ars Poetica) Carlina Duan 2025
The Fates Christian Gullette 2025
Pastime Andrea Cohen 2025
Two Frames Mateo Quispe 2024
My Grandmother’s Love Letters Christian Campbell 2025
There’s no “sass” in “dissociation.” Douglas Kearney 2025
You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See Jari Bradley 2025
Gardener’s Perception Yannis Ritsos 2025
Welder B. H. Fairchild 2023
I’m not that unrequited lover, so bitter I flee Love. Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
A Southern Road Helene Johnson 1926
Mantle Kevin Young 2025
Acceptance Kerry Hardie 2025
Josephine’s Sweet 16 Willie Perdomo 2019
The River Manuel José Othón 1920
I wake at dawn to glimpse my barren chest and speak to the children I won’t birth. Spencer Williams 2024
Summer Song Max Eastman 1913

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