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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
Trying Too Hard to Write a Poem Sitting on the Beach Philip Whalen 2007
Sonnet branches Alexandria Peary 2022
To The Sonnet Ameen Rihani 1905
from “Begin Again” Truong Tran 2022
Artless Brenda Shaughnessy 2012
Ultra Orator Spell Soham Patel 2021
Let There Be Manny Loley 2021
Poetry is This Screaming Madwoman  Giannina Braschi 1988
To: All Poets From: Northeastern North Carolina Tyree Daye 2020
The Kitchen, Indexed Ira Goga 2020
Ars Poetica (Excerpt from “Telling the Gospel Truth”) Beth Ann Fennelly 2004
Eclogue in Line to View “The Clock” by Christian Marclay Brian Blanchfield 2014
The Prestige Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
Art Herman Melville 2019
Small Craft Talk Warning Dean Young 2019
In my craft or sullen art Dylan Thomas
Poets! Towers of God! Rubén Darío 1916
Where is the Poet Yone Noguchi 1921
The Creative Drive Catherine Barnett 2019
Duplex Jericho Brown 2019

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