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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
O, that you were yourself! But, love, you are (Sonnet 13) William Shakespeare 1904
Doing Rosmarie Waldrop 2016
A Terre Wilfred Owen 2018
Apology of Genius Mina Loy 1922
Birds Punctuate the Days Joyce Clement 2018
Sorrows of Werther William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
In Each Look Our Years Edwin Torres 2017
A Poem as Long as California Rick Barot 2017
Ritual for Ash Cindy Williams Gutiérrez 2017
Night H.D. 2017
The Laughing Child W. S. Merwin 2016
Faithful Forest Alberto Ríos 2016
Native Memory Ansel Elkins 2016
Incendiary Art Patricia Smith 2016
To Hope Charlotte Smith 2016
Blue Vase Cynthia Zarin 2016
1905 Marilyn Nelson 2015
Swimming Carl Phillips 2015
Patsy Cline Jennifer Chang 2015
real poem (personal statement) Rachel Zucker 2014

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