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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
Pain Scale Catherine Barnett 2018
Soul Train Allison Joseph 2017
Here Kim Addonizio 2016
The Wood-pile Robert Frost 2016
Little Box Marilyn Nelson 2016
I Am Alive in Los Angeles! Mike Sonksen 2015
When There Were Ghosts Alberto Ríos 2014
Token Loss Kay Ryan 2014
mulberry fields Lucille Clifton 1991
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?] William Shakespeare 1600
Each year Dora Malech 2010
Ophelia to the Court Meghan O’Rourke 2010
way [excerpts] Leslie Scalapino 1988
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Walt Whitman 1891
1990 special Charles Bukowski 2007
Slim Greer in Hell Sterling A. Brown 1980
Calamus [In Paths Untrodden] Walt Whitman 1891
Days of Me Stuart Dischell 2003
Memory Poem Marlanda Dekine 2026
Learn Your Song Gabriel Ramirez 2025

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