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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
The Multitude Ellen Hinsey 2013
Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory) Joan Naviyuk Kane 2013
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew Ross Gay 2011
Origins [The Flowering Breaker Detonates Its Surf] (audio only) Derek Walcott 1964
Once More, with Feeling Luis Cernuda 2010
Snow Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Eating the Bones Ellen Bass 2007
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (audio only) Jack Gilbert 2005
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry James Tate 1972
Deer Dancer Joy Harjo 1990
American Sonnet (10) Wanda Coleman 1993
Ladders Elizabeth Alexander 2004
Wrap Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2003
At the Public Market Museum: Charleston, South Carolina Jane Kenyon 1996
Sunday Angela Shannon 2003
Ancestors Cesare Pavese 2002
How I Got That Name Marilyn Chin 1994
Haircut Elizabeth Alexander 1996

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