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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 Weary Blues Langston Hughes 1926
Theme for English B Langston Hughes 1994
Howl, Parts I & II Allen Ginsberg 1984
The New Colossus Emma Lazarus 2018
Friends with No Benefits Megan Fernandes 2023
Notes on Sentence Crossing Wendy Xu 2023
Three of Cups Gabrielle Civil 2023
Skeleton [So after a year undercover wind feels air-] Deborah Landau 2023
That Morning after the Assassination of Malcolm X Paul Mariani 2022
When Dawn Comes to the City Claude McKay 1922
Thank God for Hard Feelings Haesong Kwon 2022
Our Quarantine Story Michelle Whittaker 2022
I, New York Lam Lai 2022
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem Helene Johnson 1922
The New Transcendence (audio only) Ravi Shankar
Hinemoana essa may ranapiri 2022
It was All for Him Ameen Rihani 1905
From Brooklyn Evelyn Scott 1920
At the New York City AIDS Memorial Stefania Gomez 2022
On an Island (New York City) Joseph O. Legaspi 2021

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