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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 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
Prefix: Finding the measure Robert Kelly 1995
A True Poem Lloyd Schwartz 2000
Envoi William Meredith 1997
The Poems I Have Not Written John Brehm 2005
Ars Poetica (cocoons) Dana Levin 2005
Endnote Hayden Carruth 1996
Always on the Train Ruth Stone 2003
The Poem Daniel Hoffman 2003
Take the I Out Sharon Olds 1999

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