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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
Scar (audio only) Audre Lorde 1978
Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field Beth Ann Fennelly 2009
Through Time and Bitter Distance Emily Pauline Johnson 1912
Doubt and Love Libbie C. Baer 1902
The Old Suffragist Margaret Widdemer 1915
Wings of Return Don Mee Choi 2020
She Returns to the Water Erin Belieu 2020
[Ah! the waving lespedeza,] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border Suji Kwock Kim 2019
A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp Thomas Moore 2019
"That Blessed Hope" Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1846
Yearnings For Home Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1846
wishing Jaki Shelton Green 2019
Poverty Henry David Thoreau 1895
The Old Orphan Charles Simic 2019
Adjacent, Against, Upon Rick Barot 2019
My Mother’s Colander Dorianne Laux 2019
Amores (IV) E. E. Cummings 1923
Amores (I) E. E. Cummings 1923
Songs (VI) E. E. Cummings 1923

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