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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
Hymn to the Night Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
Kentucky River Junction Wendell Berry 1985
Early Cutting Roland Flint 1975
Night Funeral in Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
Olympia Henri Cole 2003
History Carol Ann Duffy 2003
All Day Permanent Red [To welcome Hector to his death] Christopher Logue 2003
The New Hieroglyphics Les Murray 2003
Go Down, Death James Weldon Johnson 1927
Heart's Needle W. D. Snodgrass 2006
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 Martín Espada 2003
pleiades choreographic [excerpt] Meredith Stricker 2003
The Starlings Jesper Svenbro 2003
If You Get There Before I Do Dick Allen 2003
Striding the Bones of the Coastal Range Joyce James 2003
Sustain Petal Lee Ann Brown 2003
An Inventory of an Elaborate Pile of Garbage at 2nd Ave. and 2nd St. on June 1, 2000 Brenda Coultas 2003
Audience Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2003
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You Abdellatif Laâbi 2003
Why knowing is (& Matisse's Woman with a Hat) Martha Ronk 2003

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