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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
From “Surge” Etel Adnan 2017
Sea Gods H.D. 2017
The Laughing Child W. S. Merwin 2016
When I Read the Book Walt Whitman 1891
A Perfect Game Yesenia Montilla 2016
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing Toi Derricotte 2012
In the Dream Jenny Johnson 2016
On the Death of Anne Brontë Charlotte Brontë 2016
Relic Jennifer Elise Foerster 2015
Sweeney Among the Nightingales T. S. Eliot 1920
I like to see it lap the Miles (43) Emily Dickinson 1890
canvas and mirror Evie Shockley 2010
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing] Bhanu Kapil 2008
The Present/ Lisa Robertson 2010
The Wild Iris (audio only) Louise Glück 1992
Old Black Men Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Apples Grace Schulman 2007
The Young Man’s Song W. B. Yeats 1916
Going There Jack Gilbert 2001
Suicide of a Moderate Dictator Elizabeth Bishop 2006

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