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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 First Olympic Ode [Excerpt] Pindar 1824
Poem [This beauty that I see] James Schuyler 1993
To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall Lucia Perillo 2012
Heirloom Nikky Finney 2011
Untitled [1950 June 27] Don Mee Choi 2011
Beggar Woman Charles Reznikoff 1921
Hope Wanted Alive Terese Svoboda 2010
The Black Virginity Mina Loy 1915
For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT dg nanouk okpik 2009
Friend Jean Valentine 2004
Desolation of the Chimera Luis Cernuda 2010
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885 Walt Whitman 1891
Metropolitan Nightmare Stephen Vincent Benét 1933
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing) Marvin Bell 2009
Summer Past John Gray 1893
On Poet-Ape Ben Jonson 1616
Pastoral Jennifer Chang 2008
Regarding Chainsaws Hayden Carruth 2006
The Reservation Adrian C. Louis 2007
Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing Robert Duncan 1968

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