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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
In the Congaree Samuel Amadon 2016
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished? Naomi Shihab Nye 2008
Stilling to North Arthur Sze 2014
Valentine for Ernest Mann Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
Poetry Monica Ferrell 2013
Poetry is Emilio Villa 2012
The Novel as Manuscript Norman Dubie 2011
The Indications [excerpt] Walt Whitman 1900
Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. Noah Eli Gordon 2010
The Secrets of Poetry Linda Gregg 2009
Adam's Curse W. B. Yeats 1903
If It All Went up in Smoke George Oppen 1978
Languages Carl Sandburg 1916
Blue or Green James Galvin 2009
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2007
Poetry Is a Destructive Force Wallace Stevens 1980
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991
This Bridge, Like Poetry, Is Vertigo (audio only) Marie Ponsot 2010
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry Howard Nemerov 1980
The Uses of Poetry William Carlos Williams 1909

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